Definitions
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- adjective Without a
hoop or hoops. - adjective dated Not wearing a
hoop skirt .
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some might just stay and gawk for a few minutes, then go on with their hoopless lives, but you will find that many people will be curious enough to pick up a hoop.
Hooping.org | Blog 2005
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To see a lovely girl of seventeen, with her saddle on her head, and her muzzle on behind, and her veil just covering the end of her nose, come tripping along in her hoopless, red-bottomed dress, like a churn on fire, is enough to set a man wild.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Some might just stay and gawk for a few minutes, then go on with their hoopless lives, but you will find that many people will be curious enough to pick up a hoop.
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To see a lovely girl of seventeen, with her saddle on her head, and her muzzle on behind, and her veil just covering the end of her nose, come tripping along in her hoopless, red-bottomed dress, like a churn on fire, is enough to set a man wild.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty, the yard that was littered with cord-wood, moldy planks, a hoopless wash-tub.
Main Street 2004
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Jason, always one to wiggle and stretch, started the trend by first doing hoopless carthweels.
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Jason, always one to wiggle and stretch, started the trend by first doing hoopless carthweels.
Hooping.org | Blog 2003
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Since then, there is not an 'ism' in America that she has not taken up and run into the ground; I have met her in every stage, from the coat and pantaloons of the Bloomer ten years ago to the hoopless old maid I saw yesterday going into Dodworth's Hall with the last spiritual paper and a spirit photograph in her hand.
The Continental Monthly, Vol. 5, No. 1, January, 1864 Various
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She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty, the yard that was littered with cord-wood, moldy planks, a hoopless wash-tub.
Main Street 1920
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She looked doubtfully at him, at the low shanty, the yard that was littered with cord-wood, moldy planks, a hoopless wash-tub.
Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918
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