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hooper

/hoo-per, hoop-er/US // ˈhu pər, ˈhʊp ər //UK // (ˈhuːpə) //

箍筋,箍桶匠,箍桶,箍棒

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who makes or puts hoops on barrels, tubs, etc.; a cooper.

Examples

  • The worst thing was when a woman killed herself by leaping from the roof of a building at South Fifth Street and Hooper.

  • David Greenlaw, James Hamilton, Peter Hooper and Frederick Mishkin have a new paper out on this question.

  • He is doing so now to promote a book, Truth and Consequences, shepherded by his fiancée, Catherine Hooper.

  • The plot hews close to Poltergeist, the Tobe Hooper-directed, Steven Spielberg-produced haunted house classic from 1982.

  • “People are grieving in this town,” said Scott Ballard, principal of the Hooper Bay School.

  • Call in young Parson Hooper and make him force them adherents of hisn to give it up.

  • That evening Mrs. Hooper and Mrs. Pettybone, childhood friends, long separated by the feud, stopped to speak to Scattergood.

  • Ragged and forlorn, we were eagerly welcomed at his home by Hooper's invalid wife and daughters.

  • I set out at twilight to make a walk of thirteen miles to the house of our old friend Esquire Hooper.

  • James Hooper killed, and his hut plundered of everything in it.