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hoop
noun- in criminal circles, a finger-ring US, 1856
Conventional English for three centuries, and then ascended to criminal slang. - — Captain Vincent J. Monteleone, Criminal Slang, p. 121, 1949
- That’s a twenty-five ... maybe even thirty-gee ($30,000) hoop, and you miss the point? — Iceberg Slim (Robert Beck), Death Wish, p. 93, 1977
- the rectum as a place to hide prison contraband US
- He’s gone to the hoop with it. — James Harris, A Convict’s Dictionary, p. 34, 1989
- a jockey AUSTRALIA, 1941
- Best hoop in the country, the old Darb. — Nino Culotta (John O’Grady), They’re A Weird Mob, p. 72, 1957
- He knew the set-up: lawns smooth as the baize on a baccarat table; flowers thick as wreaths on Benny the crim’s coffin; scads of humans dying to part with their money; rafts of thoroughbreds turned out beautiful as rich men’s babies; flocks of hoops gaudy as parrots in a tropical jungle. — Wilda Moxham, The Apprentice, p. 13, 1969
- From the commonly worn silk shirts with hoops of colour. — Ned Wallish, The Truth Dictionary of Racing Slang, p. 39, 1989
- a car US
- “Get yo’ black ass out of the hoop. Park that piece of shit.” — Sanyika Shakur, Monster, p. 258, 1993
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