hooper

[ hoo-per, hoop-er ]

noun

1. a person who makes or puts hoops on barrels, tubs, etc.; a cooper.

hooper

/ ˈhuːpə /

noun

1. See cooper
   a rare word for cooper

Word History and Origins

Origin of hooper¹

1375–1425; late Middle English. See hoop, -er ¹

Example Sentences

The worst thing was when a woman killed herself by leaping from the roof of a building at South Fifth Street and Hooper.

From The Daily Beast

David Greenlaw, James Hamilton, Peter Hooper and Frederick Mishkin have a new paper out on this question.

From The Daily Beast

He is doing so now to promote a book, Truth and Consequences, shepherded by his fiancée, Catherine Hooper.

From The Daily Beast

The plot hews close to Poltergeist, the Tobe Hooper-directed, Steven Spielberg-produced haunted house classic from 1982.

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“People are grieving in this town,” said Scott Ballard, principal of the Hooper Bay School.

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Call in young Parson Hooper and make him force them adherents of hisn to give it up.

From Project Gutenberg

That evening Mrs. Hooper and Mrs. Pettybone, childhood friends, long separated by the feud, stopped to speak to Scattergood.

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Ragged and forlorn, we were eagerly welcomed at his home by Hooper's invalid wife and daughters.

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I set out at twilight to make a walk of thirteen miles to the house of our old friend Esquire Hooper.

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James Hooper killed, and his hut plundered of everything in it.

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