hood
noun /hʊd/
/hʊd/
Idioms - enlarge imagea part of a coat, etc. that you can pull up to cover the back and top of your head
- a jacket with a detachable hood
Extra ExamplesTopics Clothes and Fashionc1- He was wearing a blue anorak with the hood up.
- She put up her hood when it started to rain.
- You can always put your hood up if it rains.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + hood- pull up
- put up
- lower
- …
- with the hood down
- with the hood up
- a piece of cloth put over somebody’s face and head so that they cannot be recognized or so that they cannot see
- The victim was sitting tied to a chair with a black hood over her head.
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverb + hood- pull up
- put up
- lower
- …
- with the hood down
- with the hood up
- a piece of coloured silk or fur worn over an academic gown to show the kind of degree held by the person wearing it
- (especially British English) a folding cover over a car, child's buggy, etc.
- We drove all the way with the hood down.
- enlarge image(North American English)(British English bonnet)the metal part over the front of a vehicle, usually covering the engine
- the sound of a bird hitting the hood of the car
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryadjective- car
- crumpled
- dented
- …
- open
- pop
- close
- …
- the hood of a/the car
- enlarge imagea cover placed over a device or machine, for example, to protect it
- a lens hood
- an extractor hood (= one that removes cooking smells from a kitchen)
- (especially North American English, slang) hoodlum (= a violent criminal, especially one who is part of a gang)
- (also ’hood)(especially North American English, slang) a neighbourhood, especially a person’s own neighbourhood
Word Originsenses 1 to 6 Old English hōd, of West Germanic origin; related to Dutch hoed, German Hut ‘hat’, also to hat.sense 7 1930s: abbreviation of hoodlum.sense 8 1970s: shortening of neighbourhood.
Idioms
under the hood
- at the fundamental level of how something works rather than at the obvious surface level
- They are urging potential job seekers to take a look under the hood of industry.
- If you look under the hood of these these technological wonders, you'll find carbon fibre components in many places.
- The latest version includes numerous under-the-hood improvements.