释义 |
hood noun- a neighbourhood, especially in an urban ghetto US, 1967
- The fire never goes out on the steam... in the ’hood. — Odie Hawkins, Ghetto Sketches, p. 75, 1972
- They either don’t know, don’t show, and don’t care what be going on in the hood. — Boyz N The Hood, 1990
- Hood they got no better’n ours. — Jess Mowry, Way Past Cool, p. 14, 1992
- When cocaine got too expensive for the ‘hood, crack was invented. — Chris Rock, Rock This, p. 68, 1997
- [C]rack first began ripping through the ‘hood in the mid-80s[.] — The Source, p. 74, March 2002
- a rough street youth; a criminal US, 1880
A shortened “hoodlum”. - [T]he people he’d worked with were just lowdown grafting hoods[.] — Derek Raymond (Robin Cook), The Crust on its Uppers, p. 57, 1962
- When I was thirteen, I was considered a hood, even though I didn’t hang out with any hoodish people. — Nicholas Von Hoffman, We Are The People Our Parents Warned Us Against, p. 56, 1967
- [M]y congregation, most of them under thirty–hoods, bikers, dopers, pushers, run-aways, teeny-boppers[.] — Arthur Blessitt, Turned On to Jesus, p. 1, 1971
- You know you walk around like you’re Mr. Cool or Mr. Wisdom but you’re not ... you’re just an old hood. — Hard Eight, 1996
- the penis JAMAICA, 1995
West Indian and UK black usage. Collected from a UK prisoner in May 2002. - the chest US
- — James Harris, A Convict’s Dictionary, p. 33, 1989
- heroin UK
- — Mike Haskins, Drugs, p. 284, 2003
- a 12 ounce bottle of beer US
- — American Speech, p. 62, February 1967: “Soda-fountain, restaurant and tavern calls”
▶ under the hood literally, flying by instrumentation; figuratively, operating without knowing exactly what is going on US- — American Speech, p. 229, October 1956: “More United States Air Force slang”
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