J. Hector St. Jean de Crevecoeur's "Letters from an American Farmer"

hoops

ˈhüp  
also
 ˈhu̇p 
often attributive
Noun
1
a circular strip used especially for holding together the staves of containers or as a plaything
2
a
a circular figure or object RING
b
the rim of a basketball goal
broadly the entire goal
3
a circle or series of circles of flexible material used to expand a woman's skirt
4
BASKETBALL —usually used in plural

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