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 2. (old).—To run away. For synonyms, see Amputate and Skedaddle.

1839. Brandon, Poverty, Mendicity, and Crime, 116. I have heard them tell boys who have hooped it from home that they had better go back whilst they had a home to go to.

Hooper's Hide, subs. phr. (old venery).—Copulation. For synonyms, see Greens.

1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 278. The while that his wife with Willy Was playing at Hooper's Hide.

Hoop-stick, subs. (common).—The arm. For synonyms, see Chalk Farm.

Hoosier, subs. (American).—A native of Indiana. [Perhaps the most reasonable of several ingenious explanations is, that in the early days the customary challenge or greeting in that region was, 'Who's yer?' (who's here?): pronounced hoosier.—Norton.]

1843. D. Corcoran, A Genuine Hoosier. An original character is your genuine Hoosier. By genuine, we mean such a one as has all the attributes that peculiarly belong to the back-woodsmen of the West.

1847. Darley, Drama in Pokerville, p. 197. None of them 'cotton'd' to him more kindly than an elderly hoosier from the innermost depths of Indiana.

1848. Durivage, Stray Subjects, p. 79. There is a swarm of 'suckers,' 'hoosiers,' 'buckeyes,' 'corn-crackers,' and 'wolverines' eternally on the qui vive in those parts.

Hooter, subs. (American).—1 A steam-whistle; an American devil (q.v.).

2. (colloquial).—A wooden trumpet, so contrived as to make a horrible noise.

3. (American).—A corruption of 'iota' : e.g., 'I don't care a hooter for him.'

Hooting-pudding, subs. (provincial).—A plum-pudding with such a paucity of plums that you can hear them hooting after each other.—Slang, Jargon, and Cant.

Hop, subs. (common).—A dance. [Generally informal, as a Cinderella (q.v.).] Also, as in quot. 1579, the motions of dancing. For synonyms, see Skip.

1579. Gosson, Schoole of Abuse, p. 33 (Arber's Ed.). He gaue Dauncers great stipends for selling their hopps.

1811. Jane Austen, Sense and S., ch. ix. At a little hop at the park, he danced from eight o clock till four.

1823. Bee, Dict. Turf, s.v. Hop—a contra-dance of ordinary persons and promiscuous company is 'a hop' and 'a penny-Hop' from the price formerly paid for admission.

1830. Lytton, Paul Clifford, iv. He gave them from time to time a very agreeable hop.

1847. Thackeray, Mrs. Perkins's Ball (Mr. Larkins). To describe this gentleman's infatuation for dancing, let me say, in a word, that he will even frequent boarding-house hops, rather than not go.

1848. Ruxton, Life in the Far West, p. 189. The 'temple' was generally cleared for a hop two or three times during the week.

1850. Smedley, Frank Fairleigh, p. 121. You'll be at old Coleman's hop to-*night, I suppose; so bye! bye! for the present.

1852. Bristed, Upper Ten Thousand, p. 129. Two undress-balls—hops they were.

1882. Daily Telegraph, 13 Nov., p. 5, c. 3. At all seasons there is an immense amount of dancing; and at Washington there are continual 'hotel hops' in the winter.

1887. W. S. Gilbert, Patience, ii. Prefers suburban hops To all your Monday Pops.

1889. Lippincott, Oct., p. 447. Hang me if she isn't always on the plain, or at a hop, with one of those twin kids!