hooper

[ hoo-per, hoop-er ]

/ ˈhu pər, ˈhʊp ər /

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noun

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

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Origin of hooper

1375–1425; late Middle English. See hoop, -er¹

Words nearby hooper

hooly, hoon, hoop, hoop back, hoop-de-do, hooper, hoop iron, hoopla, hoopman, hoopoe, hoop-petticoat narcissus

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How to use hooper in a sentence

The worst thing was when a woman killed herself by leaping from the roof of a building at South Fifth Street and Hooper.
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He is doing so now to promote a book, Truth and Consequences, shepherded by his fiancée, Catherine Hooper.
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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.
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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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British Dictionary definitions for hooper

hooper

/ (ˈhuːpə) /

noun

a rare word for cooper

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