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hooper [hoo-per, hoo p-er] ExamplesWord Origin noun
- a person who makes or puts hoops on barrels, tubs, etc.; a cooper.
Origin of hooper 1375–1425; late Middle English. See hoop, -er1 Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2019 Examples from the Web for hooper Contemporary Examples of hooper
The worst thing was when a woman killed herself by leaping from the roof of a building at South Fifth Street and Hooper.
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“People are grieving in this town,” said Scott Ballard, principal of the Hooper Bay School.
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Historical Examples of hooper
Spinnin’-wheels out in the shed chamber, where his gran’mother Hooper kep’ ’em?
Alice Brown
Boschen caught about one hundred; Jump, eighty-four; Hooper, sixty.
Zane Grey
The Fleet prison had now been Hooper’s house for eighteen months.
W. Llewelyn Williams.
Hooper was on his knees, and, looking round at the intruder, did not at first know him.
W. Llewelyn Williams.
Hooper had been sent for also for the ceremony of degradation.
W. Llewelyn Williams.
British Dictionary definitions for hooper hooper noun
- a rare word for cooper
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