Hoopie

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An old, worn-out car. US, dated, dialectal

    "Fact is, he worked more on our car than we did on the farm; and before the week was up, that old hoopie of ours was in the finest state of repair it'd ever been — by a damn sight, too, I mean."

Example

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"Fact is, he worked more on our car than we did on the farm; and before the week was up, that old hoopie of ours was in the finest state of repair it'd ever been — by a damn sight, too, I mean."

Etymology

Unknown.

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