单词 | hooptie |
释义 | hooptien. U.S. slang (originally in African-American usage). A car; (in later use) spec. an old or dilapidated one. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > old, worn-out crock1903 struggle-buggy1925 heap1926 crate1928 jalopy1929 clunker1930 junker1932 iron1935 fixer-upper1948 bomb1953 banger1962 hooptie1968 skedonk1970 gambo1971 1968 Current Slang (Univ. S. Dakota) 3 ii. 30 Hoopty, whoopty, a car... I don't think I'll get the hoopty tonight. 1988 ‘J. 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. 1997 Sierra Nov.–Dec. 32 You'd do better keeping your mid-1980s hooptie on the road. 2005 Detroit Free Press (Nexis) 28 Apr. 2 b Keeping a hooptie running is no small chore. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1968 |
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