hood

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hood1

▶noun

• 1 a covering for the head and neck with an opening for the face, typically part of a coat or cloak.

  ■ a similar garment worn over a university gown or surplice to indicate the wearer's degree.

  ■ Falconry a leather covering for a hawk's head.

• 2 Brit. a folding waterproof cover of a vehicle or pram.

• 3 N. Amer. the bonnet of a vehicle.

• 4 a canopy to protect users of machinery or to remove fumes from it.

• 5 a hood-like structure or marking on the head or neck of an animal.

• 6 the upper part of a flower such as a dead-nettle.

▶verb put a hood on or over.

– derivatives
hoodless adjective,
hood-like adjective.

– origin OE hōd, of W. Gmc origin; rel. to hat.

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hood2

▶noun informal, chiefly N. Amer. a gangster or violent criminal.

– origin 1930s: abbrev. of hoodlum.

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hood3

▶noun informal, chiefly US a neighbourhood.

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-hood

▶suffix forming nouns.

• 1 denoting a condition or quality: womanhood.

• 2 denoting a collection or group: brotherhood.

– origin OE -hād, orig. an independent noun meaning ‘person, condition, quality’.