Meanings
plural hooptees
- alternativeslangAfrican-AmericanAlternative spelling of hooptie.
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“How many of you guys got a hooptee, raise your hand?” Carlos Caraballo asked his senior auto shop at Automotive High School in Brooklyn. A dozen boys, roughly half the class, raised their hands and began discussing their hooptees. The term is street slang for a cheap, functional car favored by city youths who often tinker tirelessly to make the car a speedster.
2007 October 24, Corey Kilgannon, “A High School Under the Hood”, in The New York Times
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hooptee. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 3, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/hooptee
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