Palmer Luckey

If I grew up in 'da hood,' it would make my story so much more interesting - if I had something to escape from. I had a pretty good life. My parents weren't rich; they weren't poor. I wasn't trying to escape from anything. It was always just the pursuit of something cooler.

American Businessman

Moneybagg Yo

When I first started rapping, I was just doing it for the hood to notice me - the hood fame - just to get people's attention around the city, to make me a little show money. But then music became my passion, it got real serious.

Skepta

They respect rappers in the U.S., but in England, it's the Queen's country. She'll forever be putting out the message on these BBC networks that there's no hood: it's tea and red phoneboxes.

English Musician

Shaggy

When you see a Jamaica video, it's always the hood. Everybody in the video's got guns, and the world looks at it like that's what Jamaica's about. And it affects the economics of the music.

Jamaican Musician

DJ Premier

Everybody knows with rap artists, if you can't go to the hood, it's almost like you're not authentic, even if you're a dope artist that's respected.

American Musician

Manny Montana

I grew up in the hood, and I was raised to hate cops. But then, I started to realize that they're people, and they have lives, too.

American Actor

Astro

Whatever woman I love... I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she's gotta have respect for my mother.

Musician

Chamillionaire

Rap got me out of the hood. Rap got me out of Houston and helped me to see the world.

John Boyega

There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood.

British Actor

Ice Cube

There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.

Use 'hood' to refer to the part of a coat that shields you from bad weather.

Weather Protection

'Hood' can suggest someone wants to conceal their identity or remain unnoticed.

Anonymous or Hidden

Using 'hood' typically indicates the discussion of car maintenance or mechanics.

Car Maintenance

Remember, 'hood' as part of a car is mainly used in North America, not in other English-speaking regions.

US Specific

'Hood' is a slang term for the area you live in or are familiar with.

Local Area

Use 'hood' in casual conversations but not in formal writing or speech.

Casual Speech

Be aware that 'hood' can imply criminal activity when referring to a person.

Criminal Implication

Be mindful not to stereotype communities by calling people 'hoods' without reason.

Avoid Stereotyping

'Hood' as a suffix describes a characteristic or group related to the word it follows.

Descriptive Suffix

As a suffix, 'hood' doesn't always mean a tangible thing but often an abstract quality.

Not Always Literal

 the world and we shot our body actors and we shot them wearing blue hoods so these are the gentleman who played Benjamin and the blue hoods helped us for two things one we could easily erase their heads and we also put tracking markers on their heads so in fact we could recreate the camera motion of the lens optics from the set but now we needed to get Brad's performance to

How Benjamin Button got...

 that some man would mistake this water for a good reason to wash all of this away. These are the sorts of messages I've been inundated with my entire Always keep your hands where they can see them, don't move too quickly, take off your hood when the sun goes down. My parents raised me and my siblings in an armor of advice,

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 The way that we see emotions in others are deeply rooted in predictions. So to us, it feels like we just look at someone's face, and we just read the emotion that's there in their facial expressions the way that we would read words on a page. But actually, under the hood, your brain is predicting.

You aren't at the mercy...

 And notice I said, "What's up with us white people?" because right now, I'm not talking about those white people, the ones with the swastikas and the hoods and the tiki torches. They are a problem and a threat. They perpetrate most of the terrorism in our country,

The lie that invented...

 local materials not important and I produce these products from local materials starting from Kota molasses chicken ovens the intestines the crooks I refer to the hood amuse him not human with food and therefore if I'm missing cow dung you can see that you can

Innovative and cost...

 and he's just the latest brilliant practitioner of it. I don't have to tell you this; you just heard the man. Excellent insights into human psychology, wise advice on every page. Moreover, he invites us to look under the hood. I really appreciated that.

Dan Dennett: Responding...

 into a hood like the molecule Cobra before it it just looks huge his head as the size of my hand and the fangs long thin needles that can inject huge amounts of venom even deep into the muscle that's what allows it to work so

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 highly colorful racial slurs by those who use the anonymity of the internet as a Klan hood. And some of them were pretty creative, actually, but others were pretty wounding, especially navigating the post-traumatic world

A Black man goes...

 his up ready I'm ready Haidee okay ready 5 seconds or taking the hood off like hoodies off thank you that huge that's enough right Lloyd won't let us jump until he's absolutely sure lady is ready to fly why lady is in

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 other scientific instruments and by the time he gets back into the hut that's what his hood and face look like most of the work was man hauling sledges with makeshift sails to help and

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