Hood

Quick meaning: Hood is a noun meaning A covering for the head, usually attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

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

Example Sentences

What’s goin’ down in the hood?

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

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

Word Forms

• hoods
• hooding
• hooded

Synonyms for hood

Depending on context, synonyms include ghetto, nabe, neighborhood, shithole, tough, goon.

Antonyms for hood

Common opposites include unhood.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include cowl, bonnet, cowling, punk, thug, hoodlum.

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