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单词 hooptie
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hooptien.

Brit. /ˈhuːpti/, U.S. /ˈhupti/
Inflections: Plural hoopties, hooptys.
Forms: 1900s– hooptie, 1900s– hoopty, 1900s– whooptie, 1900s– whoopty.
Origin: Of unknown origin.
Etymology: Origin unknown.Compare U.S. regional (rare) hoopy, recorded slightly earlier in the same sense in Dict. Amer. Regional Eng. (1991) II. 1090/1.
U.S. slang (originally in African-American usage).
A car; (in later use) spec. an old or dilapidated one.
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society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motor car > [noun] > old, worn-out
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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).
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