hoo-hoo

noun

The genitals or genital area.

Meanings

hoo-hoo1

nounhoo-hoo (plural hoo-hoos)

plural hoo-hoos · alternative hoo hoo

  1. euphemisticThe genitals or genital area.

    A black guy showed up in the nude, his hoo-hoo in the state of erection.

    2002, Richard R. Booth, Picture, If You Will, →ISBN, page 133
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    As other media did their usual cookie-cutter coverage, Redmond wrote of earthier matters: the late, great, 1,400-pound boar Spots Stallone and his massive hoo-hoos.

    1996 October, Bettie Cadou, “Fresh Prints”, in Indianapolis Monthly, volume 20, number 2, page 88

    Now, here she was, however many years later, and her hair-hair was still as black as black could ever hope to be—but her hoo-hoo hair was, well, GONE.

    2008, Jill Conner Browne, American Thighs: The Sweet Potato Queens' Guide to Preserving Your Assets, →ISBN

    Is that the way a Miss Teen Dream sits, all slutty like that with her hoo-hoo showing?

    2011, Libba Bray, Beauty Queens, →ISBN

    I know I have to help my daughter learn to drive her vagina responsibly. Eventually. You know, so she comes to realize the respect she should have for her hoo-hoo.

    2012, Dan Bucatinsky, Does This Baby Make Me Look Straight?: Confessions of a Gay Dad, →ISBN
  2. alternativeAlternative form of hoo hoo (noise)

    He took one look at me and broke off into a fresh series of hoo-hoos and hoo-haws.

    1996, Tony Hillerman, Rosemary Herbert, The Oxford Book of American Detective Stories, page 606
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    It was startling but mournful, a loud "hoo-hoo" that seemed a part of the night and the forest.

    1940, Kathrene Sutherland, Gedney Pinkerton, Adventure North, page 47

    It is usually performed with one or more other individuals, one beginning with a chuckle followed by a series of "hoo-hoos." Soon others join in with hoo-hoos and ha-has in marvelous disharmony until the forest quakes with "laughter."

    2005, Howard Ensign Evans, Mary Alice Evans, The Man who Loved Wasps, →ISBN

Hoo-Hoo2

proper noun
  1. abbreviationShort for The International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo, a fraternal organization for lumbermen.

    He says they're all in for a huge treat tonight because the Chief Executive Officer of Hoo-Hoo International—the Snark of the Universe—has flown in all the way from Alabama just to be with them.

    2007, Derek Swannson, Crash Gordon and the Mysteries of Kingsburg, →ISBN, page 35
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    Hoo-Hoo leadership, aware of increasing recognition of Hoo-Hoo as an important factor in the industry, realizes that Hoo-Hoo must develop responsibility and active participation in general industry programs of promotion and education.

    1958, Proceedings of the Annual Northwest Wood Products Clinic

    It was stressed that Hoo-Hoo members should endeavour to increase their knowledge on this subiect in order that they might effectively communicate industry facts to members of their own families and fellow workers.

    1976, Australian Forest Industries Journal - Volume 42, page 67
nounHoo-Hoo (plural Hoo-Hoos or Hoo-Hoo)

plural Hoo-Hoos

  1. A member of Hoo-Hoo.

    A couple of Hoo-Hoos I knew, dragged me out to my rig and drove me home.

    1994, Judy Jewell, Oregon, page 103
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    There have been initiated into the order nearly thirty thousand Hoo-Hoos scattered all over the entire world.

    1917, National Magazine - Volume 46, page 244

    The fifty-3econd annual convention of the International Concatenated Order of Hoo-Hoo was a radical departure from the previous meetings held at a central place, with members traveling across the States to fraternize with fellow Hoo-Hoo.

    1943, American Lumberman, page 40

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Origin

From the hooting call of a lumberjack to his co-workers in the woods.

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