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hoopman

American  
[hoop-muhn, hoop-] / ˈhup mən, ˈhʊp- /

noun

Sports Slang.

PLURAL

hoopmen
  1. a basketball player.


Etymology

Origin of hoopman

1680–90 for sense “acrobat”; hoop + -man

Example Sentences

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Billie Hoopman, city clerk in Bayfield, with about 475 people on the shores of Lake Superior, uses only one voting machine, an optical scanner.

From Washington Times

In Guatemala, Clark M. Shimeall and Harold Hoopman of the Ohio Oil Company of Guatemala made available to us the facilities of the company's camps at Chinaj� and Toocog.

From Project Gutenberg

Its initial $5.1 billion offer for Marathon in October was also immediately denounced as "grossly inadequate" by the company's president, Harold Hoopman.

From Time Magazine Archive

Hoopman got a hero's welcome when his Lockheed JetStar touched down last week after the deal was concluded.

From Time Magazine Archive