Hood
noun
A soft or flexible covering for the head and neck.
He pulled up the hood of his jacket to protect his face from the cold and wind.
Often appears as...
- pull up the hood
- hood on jacket
noun
The top part covering an engine in a vehicle.
She opened the hood of her car to check the engine.
Often appears as...
- open the hood
- under the hood
noun
A neighborhood.
He's been living in this hood since he was born.
Often appears as...
- in the hood
- from the hood
Usage tips
Informal, Neutral
Colloquial
noun
A violent criminal, especially a member of a gang.
The local hoods are known to police.
Often appears as...
- local hoods
- hoods and gangsters
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Idiomatic,Colloquial
suffix
Functioning as adding the meaning 'state', 'condition' or 'quality', in a noun.
Childhood, Brotherhood, Womanhood, Nationhood
Often appears as...
- childhood
- brotherhood
noun
A soft or flexible covering for the head and neck.
He pulled up the hood of his jacket to protect his face from the cold and wind.
Often appears as...
- pull up the hood
- hood on jacket
noun
The top part covering an engine in a vehicle.
She opened the hood of her car to check the engine.
Often appears as...
- open the hood
- under the hood
noun
A neighborhood.
He's been living in this hood since he was born.
Often appears as...
- in the hood
- from the hood
Usage tips
Informal, Neutral
Colloquial
noun
A violent criminal, especially a member of a gang.
The local hoods are known to police.
Often appears as...
- local hoods
- hoods and gangsters
Usage tips
Informal, Disapproving
Idiomatic,Colloquial
suffix
Functioning as adding the meaning 'state', 'condition' or 'quality', in a noun.
Childhood, Brotherhood, Womanhood, Nationhood
Often appears as...
- childhood
- brotherhood
Definition 1 of 5
Pro Tip 1/2Weather Protection
Use 'hood' to refer to the part of a coat that shields you from bad weather.
She put on her hood to keep the rain off her face.
Pro Tip 2/2Anonymous or Hidden
'Hood' can suggest someone wants to conceal their identity or remain unnoticed.
He slipped the hood over his head, blending into the crowd.
Pro Tip 1/2Weather Protection
Use 'hood' to refer to the part of a coat that shields you from bad weather.
She put on her hood to keep the rain off her face.
Pro Tip 2/2Anonymous or Hidden
'Hood' can suggest someone wants to conceal their identity or remain unnoticed.
He slipped the hood over his head, blending into the crowd.
Pro Tip 1/2Weather Protection
Use 'hood' to refer to the part of a coat that shields you from bad weather.
She put on her hood to keep the rain off her face.
Pro Tip 2/2Anonymous or Hidden
'Hood' can suggest someone wants to conceal their identity or remain unnoticed.
He slipped the hood over his head, blending into the crowd.
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Video examples
How Benjamin Button got...
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
Video examples
How to raise a Black son...
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,
Video examples
You aren't at the mercy...
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.
Video examples
The lie that invented...
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,
Video examples
Innovative and cost...
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
Video examples
Dan Dennett: Responding...
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.
Video examples
Awesome King Cobra PIPE...
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
Video examples
A Black man goes...
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
Video examples
Falcon Vs Skydiver PIPE...
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
Video examples
Alone on the Ice: The...
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
Video examples
How Benjamin Button got...
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
Video examples
How to raise a Black son...
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,
Video examples
You aren't at the mercy...
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.
Video examples
The lie that invented...
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,
Video examples
Innovative and cost...
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
Video examples
Dan Dennett: Responding...
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.
Video examples
Awesome King Cobra PIPE...
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
Video examples
A Black man goes...
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
Video examples
Falcon Vs Skydiver PIPE...
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
Video examples
Alone on the Ice: The...
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
Example 1 of 10
Quote examples
Palmer Luckey
American Businessman
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.
Quote examples
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.
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Skepta
English Musician
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.
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Shaggy
Jamaican Musician
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.
Quote examples
DJ Premier
American Musician
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.
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Manny Montana
American Actor
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.
Quote examples
Astro
Musician
Whatever woman I love... I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she's gotta have respect for my mother.
Quote examples
Chamillionaire
American Musician
Rap got me out of the hood. Rap got me out of Houston and helped me to see the world.
Quote examples
John Boyega
British Actor
There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood.
Quote examples
Ice Cube
American Musician
There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
Quote examples
Palmer Luckey
American Businessman
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.
Quote examples
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.
Quote examples
Skepta
English Musician
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.
Quote examples
Shaggy
Jamaican Musician
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.
Quote examples
DJ Premier
American Musician
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.
Quote examples
Manny Montana
American Actor
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.
Quote examples
Astro
Musician
Whatever woman I love... I gotta love her. She might be a hood rat, but she's gotta have respect for my mother.
Quote examples
Chamillionaire
American Musician
Rap got me out of the hood. Rap got me out of Houston and helped me to see the world.
Quote examples
John Boyega
British Actor
There is a level of appreciation for brothers and sisters in the hood.
Quote examples
Ice Cube
American Musician
There's never really been a real hood Christmas movie.
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