hood
IPA: hˈʊd
noun
- A covering for the head attached to a larger garment such as a jacket or cloak.
- A distinctively coloured fold of material, representing a university degree.
- An enclosure that protects something, especially from above.
- Particular parts of conveyances
- (automotive, chiefly UK) A soft top of a convertible car or carriage.
- (automotive, chiefly US, Canada) The hinged cover over the engine of a motor vehicle, known as a bonnet in other countries.
- (by extension, especially in the phrase "under the hood") A cover over the engine, driving machinery or inner workings of something.
- A metal covering that leads to a vent to suck away smoke or fumes.
- (nautical) One of the endmost planks (or, one of the ends of the planks) in a ship’s bottom at bow or stern, that fits into the rabbet. (These, when fit into the rabbet, resemble a hood (covering).)
- Various body parts
- (ophiology) An expansion on the sides of the neck typical for many elapids e.g. the Egyptian cobra (Naja haje) and Indian cobra (Naja naja).
- (colloquial) The osseous or cartilaginous marginal extension behind the back of many a dinosaur such as a ceratopsid and reptiles such as Chlamydosaurus kingii.
- In the human hand, over the extensor digitorum, an expansion of the extensor tendon over the metacarpophalangeal joint (the extensor hood syn. dorsal hood syn. lateral hood)
- (slang) Gangster, thug.
- (African-American Vernacular, slang) Neighborhood.
- (UK) Person wearing a hoodie.
- A surname.
- A placename
- A census-designated place in Sacramento County, California, United States.
- Ellipsis of Hood County. [One of 254 counties in Texas, United States. County seat: Granbury.]
- Ellipsis of Hood River. (river) [A river in Nunavut, Canada, which flows into the Arctic Ocean.]
verb
- To cover something with a hood.
adjective
- Relating to inner-city everyday life, both positive and negative aspects; especially people’s attachment to and love for their neighborhoods.
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