hoopman

[hoop-muhn, hoop-]

noun

Sports Slang.

plural

hoopmen 

1. a basketball player.

Word History and Origins

Origin of hoopman¹

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

Example Sentences

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

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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.

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

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

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