hood

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/hʊd/

noun 9name 5verb 3adj 1

Collocations

(noun.)

VERB + HOOD

pull back, pull off, pull up, put up

When she stepped outside into the snow, she quickly pulled up her hood to keep warm.

PHRASES

with the hood down/up

She drove her convertible with the hood down on that sunny afternoon.

Definitions

noun

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

A distinctively colored fold of material, representing a university degree.

An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.

Particular parts of conveyances

verb

To cover (something) with a hood.

To extend out from (something), in the manner of a hood.

To grow over the eyelid but not the eye itself.

noun

Gangster, thug.

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

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Synonyms

noun — protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers t

noun — a protective covering that is part of a plant

noun — an aggressive and violent young criminal

Antonyms

Idioms & Phrases

Example Bank

Like many captains, I was just as glad to leave engineering to the engineers. Looking under the ship's hood wasn't what interested me.

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I never see the pilot percolating coffee or the attendant with a screwdriver under the airplane's hood. Why? Because we all have something we are good at, and we are expected to do that one thing well

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Care must also be taken to place the tenons on the main post so that a stop-water can be driven between it and the fore tenon and the rabbet of the hoods at the keel. The post being dressed to its pro

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

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What’s goin’ down in the hood?

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

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Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, hood is marked as slang, UK. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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