Definitions
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- noun Slang The game of basketball.
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- noun US slang, in the plural
basketball - noun Plural form of
hoop . - verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of
hoop .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a game played on a court by two opposing teams of 5 players; points are scored by throwing the ball through an elevated horizontal hoop
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Examples
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Not getting through the hoops is my bad, but lately it seems all anyone actually cares about is the hoops and not the writing.
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You have seen a lot of changes in hoops and hoopers over the years.
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Thus, a mongrel semblance to a cooker spaniel of a dog was tried out for several days as a pony-rider who would leap through paper hoops from the pony's back, and return upon the back again.
CHAPTER XXVI 2010
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I just made a lightweight couple of twin hoops and I finally can keep the two hoops sustaining!
Hooping.org | Blog | Veronika "Kit" Petra: Inside The Hoop 2009
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I really think the whole idea of saving a few pennies but jumping through the hoops is pretty pointless.
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Stacey Pika Lang, aka Pikafuego, takes us through more poi style twin hoops with TickTock and Chase, off-body moves, vertical breaks with tosses plus a more difficult fluid variation.
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OU hoops is off to a good start, winning the NIT tip-off tourney and running their record to 6-0.
Archive 2008-11-01 2008
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But it hardly has been dormant in hoops, totaling the most Final Four appearances (six) in the past seven years of any conference, including the Atlantic Coast (five).
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But his "all-time" favorite announcer isn't in hoops: It's John Madden.
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OU hoops is off to a good start, winning the NIT tip-off tourney and running their record to 6-0.
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