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hooptie, n. U.S. slang (orig. in African-American usage).
Brit. |ˈhuːpti|, U.S. |ˈhupti|
Plural -ies, -s
Forms: 19– hooptie, 19– hoopty, 19– whooptie, 19– whoopty
[Origin unknown.
Compare U.S. regional (rare) hoopy, recorded slightly earlier in the same sense in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 1090/1.]
A car; (in later use) spec. an old or dilapidated one.
1968Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 ii. 30 Hoopty, whoopty, a car... I don't think I'll get the hoopty tonight. 1988J. Norst Colors xv. 192 The black patrolman who'd just blocked the Crip's path by parking his LAPD hoopty where an alley crossed the sidewalk. 1997Sierra Nov.–Dec. 32 You'd do better keeping your mid-1980s hooptie on the road. 2005Detroit Free Press (Nexis) 28 Apr. 2 b, Keeping a hooptie running is no small chore. |