Dictionary Definition
'hood n : (slang) a neighborhoodhood
Noun
1 an aggressive and violent young criminal [syn:
hoodlum, goon, punk, thug, tough, toughie, strong-armer]
2 metal covering leading to a vent that exhausts
smoke or fumes [syn: exhaust
hood]
3 the folding roof of a carriage
4 a headdress that protects the head and
face
5 protective covering consisting of a metal part
that covers the engine; "there are powerful engines under the hoods
of new cars"; "the mechanic removed the cowling in order to repair
the plane's engine" [syn: bonnet, cowl, cowling] v : cover with a hood;
"The bandits were hooded"
User Contributed Dictionary
English
Pronunciation
- Rhymes: -ʊd
Adjective
- Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.
Translations
Noun
- A covering such as worn over one’s head.
- A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
- An enclosure which protects something, especially from above.
- In the context of "automotive": A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- In the context of "US|automotive": The hinged cover over the engine of a motor car.
- Gangster, thug. Short for hoodlum.
- Neighborhood.
Translations
headwear
university degree
- Spanish: birrete
protective cover
soft top
- Finnish: kuomu, kuomukatto
- Spanish: capota , cubierta
front of car
- Dutch: kap , motorkap
- Finnish: konepelti
- German: Motorhaube
- Italian: cofano
- Spanish: capó , bonete , capirote italbrac Southeastern Mexico, cofre italbrac Mexican standard usage
Verb
- To cover something with a hood.
Translations
cover with a hood
- Dutch: bedekken
Extensive Definition
Hood may refer to:
People
- Hoodlum, a street tough
- Adam Hood, musician
- Admiral Hood, any of several officers (of that name) of the Royal Navy
- Alan Hood
- Alex Hood
- Alexander Hood, 1st Viscount Bridport
- Alexander Hood (captain)
- Alexander Fuller-Acland-Hood, 1st Baron St Audries
- Arthur Hood, 1st Baron Hood of Avalon
- Baby Bonnie Hood, fictional character
- Basil Hood
- Bill Hood
- Bruce Hood
- Cherry Hood
- Christopher Hood
- Daniel Hood
- Darla Hood
- Dave Hood
- David Hood
- Dakota Hood
- Dennis Hood
- Gavin Hood
- Glenda Hood, the secretary of state for Florida
- Graham Hood, Canadian middle-distance runner
- Gwenyth Hood
- Harry Hood
- Horace Hood
- Hugh Hood
- James Hood
- Jim Hood
- Jimmy Hood
- Joey Hood
- John Hood
- John Hood (naval officer)
- John Bell Hood (1831–1879), a Confederate general during the American Civil War
- Kate Hood
- Kit Hood
- Leroy Hood, an American biologist involved in sequencing the human genome
- Morag Hood
- Peter Hood
- Raymond Hood, an early twentieth-century architect
- Red Hood, fictional character in DC Comics
- Red Riding Hood, fairy tale character
- Robin Hood, an English folk hero from medieval legends
- Roderick Hood
- Samuel Hood, 1st Viscount Hood
- Samuel Hood, 2nd Baron Bridport
- Samuel Hood (admiral)
- Sean Hood
- Stuart Hood
- Thomas Hood, British poet and humorist
- Thomas Hood (mathematician), British mathematician and physician.
- Tom Hood
- T~Nap
Places
- In the United
States:
- Fort Hood, a US Army post near Killeen, Texas
- Hood College, a liberal arts college in Frederick, Maryland
- Mount
Hood is the tallest mountain in Oregon
- Mount Hood, Oregon, an unincorporated community named after the mountain
- Mount Hood Parkdale, Oregon, the name of the post office that serves Mount Hood, Oregon
- Hood County, Texas
- Hood Canal a fjord off Puget Sound in Washington state
- Any of several places named Hood River (disambiguation)
- A slang for neighborhood or ghetto
Things
Science
- Hood (anatomy), a flap of skin behind the head of a cobra
- Fume hood, a piece of laboratory safety equipment
- Clitoral hood, the outer layer of skin surrounding the clitoris
- hereditary osteo-onychodysplasia
Other
- HMS Hood
(51), British battlecruiser sunk by the Germans in the Battle
of Denmark Strait, 1941
- HMS Hood (disambiguation), other ships of the same name
- Hood (headgear), a type of head covering
- An article of Academic dress
- Bondage hood, a sex toy
- HP Hood, an American food manufacturer (especially focusing on dairy products)
- Lens hood, a device used to block light from creating glare in photographs.
- Hood (vehicle), the covering over the engine compartment in a motor vehicle (aka 'bonnet in UK)
- Hood (soft top), the retractable soft roof of a convertible vehicle
- HOOD method, a software design method
- street slang for 'neighborhood', especially high-crime urban areas
- Range hood, an exhaust system for a stove or cooktop
- Hood (novel), a 1995 novel by Emma Donoghue
- "Hood", a youth independent of any paramilitary group, U.T.H Up.The.Hoods (Northern Ireland)
- Hood, early maker of steam cars in Lanark, Illinois
- Hood (band), a British band
- Hoods (band), an American band
- The Hood, a character in the Thunderbirds (TV series) series
- Hood (comics), a Marvel Comics character
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hood in Hebrew: הוד
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Synonyms, Antonyms and Related Words
Mafioso, SOB, Young Turk, apply to, bad boy,
bastard, battler, beast, beldam, belligerent, belted knight,
berserk, berserker, bickerer, blade, blanket, block, bomber, bonnet, booger, boot, bravo, brawler, breech, bruiser, brute, buffoon, bugger, bully, bullyboy, canopy, cap, ceil, cloak, clothe, cloud, coat, coif, combatant, competitor, contender, contestant, cope, cork, cover, cover up, coverage, covering, covert, coverture, cowl, cowling, creep, crown, curtain, cutup, demon, devil, disputant, dome, dragon, drape, drapery, duelist, eclipse, elf, enfant terrible, enforcer, fart, fencer, feuder, fiend, fighter, fighting cock, film, fire-eater, firebrand, foilsman, frock, funmaker, fury, gamecock, gladiator, goon, gorilla, gown, guise, gun, gunsel, hanging, hardnose, hat, hatchet man, heel, hell-raiser, hellcat, hellhound, hellion, holy terror, hoodlum, hooligan, hothead, hotspur, housing, imp, incendiary, jacket, jerk, joker, jokester, jouster, killer, knave, knight, lay on, lay over, little
devil, little monkey, little rascal, louse, mad dog, madcap, mantle, mask, meanie, militant, minx, mischief, mischief-maker,
monster, mother, muffle, mug, mugger, muscle man, obduce, obscure, occult, overlay, overspread, pall, pill, pixie, plug-ugly, practical joker,
prankster, puck, put on, quarreler, rapist, rapscallion, rascal, rat, revolutionary, rioter, rival, rodman, rogue, roof, roof in, rough, roughneck, rowdy, ruffian, sabreur, savage, scamp, scapegrace, scrapper, screen, scuffler, scum, she-wolf, shelter, shield, shirt, shit, shithead, shitheel, shoe, shroud, sock, spitfire, spread over, squabbler, stinkard, stinker, stocking, stopper, strong arm, strong-arm
man, strong-armer, struggler, superimpose, superpose, swashbuckler, sword, swordplayer, swordsman, termagant, terror, terrorist, thug, tiger, tigress, tilter, tip, top, torpedo, tough, tough guy, trigger man,
turd, tussler, ugly customer, veil, vestment, violent, virago, vixen, wag, wild beast, witch, wolf, wrangler