Meaning

A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak..

Definitions by Sense

1. A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
2. A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.
3. An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
4. Particular parts of conveyances
5. Various body parts
6. (transitive) To cover (something) with a hood.
7. (transitive) To extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.
8. (intransitive, of skin and soft tissue) To grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.

Example Sentences

Teen-age hoods steal cars in cities, take them into the pines, strip them, ignite them, and leave the scene.

What’s goin’ down in the hood?

Neighborhoods are now hoods cause nobody's neighbors / Just animals surviving with that animal behavior

Word Forms

• hoods
• hooding
• hooded
• 'hood

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When Should You Use 'hood?

Use 'hood when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.

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