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hoopman
[
hoop
-m
uh
n,
h
oo
p
-]
/ˈhup mən, ˈhʊp-/
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noun
,
plural
hoopmen.
Sports Slang.
1.
a basketball player.
Origin of
hoopman
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1680-1690
1680-90
for sense “acrobat”;
hoop
+
-man
Dictionary.com Unabridged
Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2017.
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hoop-man
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hoop-man
noun
A basketball player
(1940s+ Basketball)
The Dictionary of American Slang, Fourth Edition by Barbara Ann Kipfer, PhD. and Robert L. Chapman, Ph.D.
Copyright (C) 2007 by HarperCollins Publishers.
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