Clues for the word "HOOP"
We've had 136 crossword clues used for this word, and seen it 269 times in crosswords. It was last seen in New York Times crossword on December 18, 2025.
Definition of hoop
- n. - A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.
- n. - A ring; a circular band; anything resembling a hoop, as the cylinder (cheese hoop) in which the curd is pressed in making cheese.
- n. - A circle, or combination of circles, of thin whalebone, metal, or other elastic material, used for expanding the skirts of ladies' dresses; crinoline; -- used chiefly in the plural.
- n. - A quart pot; -- so called because originally bound with hoops, like a barrel. Also, a portion of the contents measured by the distance between the hoops.
- n. - An old measure of capacity, variously estimated at from one to four pecks.
- v. t. - To bind or fasten with hoops; as, to hoop a barrel or puncheon.
- v. t. - To clasp; to encircle; to surround.
- v. i. - To utter a loud cry, or a sound imitative of the word, by way of call or pursuit; to shout.
- v. i. - To whoop, as in whooping cough. See Whoop.
- v. t. - To drive or follow with a shout.
- v. t. - To call by a shout or peculiar cry.
- n. - A shout; a whoop, as in whooping cough.
- n. - The hoopoe. See Hoopoe.
Referring Clues
- "___ Dreams" (1994 documentary film)
- Showy earring
- Cager's target
- Basketball ___
- Earring style
- Basketballer's target
- Bucket
- Score for a 34-Across player
- Earring shape
- Earring type
- Roundball target
- Ear dangler
- Basketball target
- Embroidery stretcher
- Croquet arch
- Jazz score
- Hula-___
- Large earring
- See 1-Across
- NBA target
- Hula ___
- Lobe dangler
- Hula ___
- Basketball backboard attachment
- Skirt insert
- Target for a free throw
- Cask support
- Slam dunk site
- Lion tamer's prop
- Tamer's prop
- Stud alternative
- Basketball rim
- Free-throw target
- Skirt shape
- "___ Dreams" (1994 documentary film)
- Lion tamer's accessory
- Circular band
- Basketball court item
- Basket some shoot at
- "___ Dreams" (1994 documentary)
- Band around a barrel
- Michael Jordan's old target
- Croquet wicket
- Shooter's target
- Ringlike earring
- Kind of skirt or snake
- Hula helper?
- Cricket wicket
- Basketball player's goal
- Court target
- Cager's goal
- Earring or skirt shape
- Skirt style
- Old skirt part
- Lobe adornment
- Court ring
- Barrel part
- Basketball goal
- Basketball hardware
- Rim on a basketball court
- Skirt support
- Skirt expander
- Hula- ___
- Barrel piece
- Skirt genre
- Backboard attachment
- ___ skirt
- Simple earring style
- A circus lion may jump through one
- Shooter's target?
- Dwayne Wade target
- Lion tamer's apparatus
- Barrel component
- Wicket
- Basket
- Lebron's target
- Scarlett's skirt type
- Ring, essentially
- Shooter's target, often
- What an air ball misses
- Basketball necessity
- Barrel band
- Target for Carmelo
- Circus prop
- Basketball player's target
- Hula ___, 1950s craze
- Its diameter is roughly twice that of a basketball
- Certain earring
- Wedding dress insert
- Piece of equipment for 29-Down
- Free throw target
- Basketball need
- Earring variety
- Metal ring
- Hula ___ (toy for the hips)
- Nothing interrupting dance band
- Bear coming back as child's plaything
- Procedure to "jump through"
- Ring
- Basketball rim or type of skirt
- Rigid circular band
- Housework, something to jump through
- Wood, metal or plastic band
- Endless source of childish pleasure?
- All round, it's just the house for a bit of opera
- Circle of wood etc
- Croquet target
- Net holder
- Ring bear up
- Band loves to occupy the Palace of Westminster
- None impressed by dance band
- Old impressed by dance band
- Ring round during dance
- Bear up with roller
- Barrel ring
- Slam dunk target
- Metal circle
- Basketball basket
- Circular kind of earring
- Big earring type
- Embroidery aid
- Circular earring
- Type of skirt or earring
- Target for a hook
- Style of earrings
- Big earring
- Shape of some earrings
- Prop for a levitation trick
- Cool thing to shoot at
- Endless source of childish pleasure?
- Hula what?
- Nose ring shape
- Type of earring
- One of six in garden croquet
- "I like slam dunks take me to the ___ / My favorite play is the Alley Oop" ("Basketball" lyric)
- Bit of aerial arts equipment
Last Seen In
- New York Times - December 18, 2025
- LA Times - October 26, 2025
- LA Times - October 12, 2025
- New York Times - August 09, 2025
- LA Times - July 24, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - July 24, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - June 14, 2025
- Daily Cryptic - May 31, 2025
- Penny Dell Daily - April 14, 2025
- LA Times - April 01, 2025
- USA Today - January 24, 2025
- New York Times - December 29, 2024
- New York Times - December 09, 2024
- New York Times - November 19, 2024
- USA Today - November 03, 2024
- LA Times - September 26, 2024
- Family Time - June 09, 2024
- Daily American - June 08, 2024
- LA Times - March 07, 2024
- Mirror Daily - March 01, 2024
- LA Times - February 11, 2024
- USA Today - October 08, 2023
- King Syndicate - Eugene Sheffer - September 13, 2023
- Family Time - August 20, 2023
- LA Times - July 12, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - June 14, 2023
- Daily Cryptic - May 31, 2023
- LA Times - April 14, 2023
- Mirror Daily - April 13, 2023
- Mirror Daily - November 16, 2022
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