hoopie

English

Alternative forms

• hoopy

Etymology

Unknown.

Noun

hoopie (plural hoopies)

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

   Synonyms: banger, bucket, beater, hooptie, jalopy, wreck, crock, shitbox, rustbucket; see also Thesaurus:old car

   • 1956 September, Dillon Anderson, “The Meanest Man in Washington County”, in The Atlantic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: The Atlantic Monthly Group, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 12 January 2025:

     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.