hooded

adjective

hood·​ed ˈhu̇-dəd How to pronounce hooded (audio)
1
: having a hood
2
: shaped like a hood
hooded spathes
3
a
: having the head conspicuously different in color from the rest of the body
hooded bird
b
: having a crest on the head that suggests a hood
hooded seals
c
: having the skin at each side of the neck capable of expansion by movements of the ribs
a hooded cobra
4
: half-closed
hooded eyes
hoodedness noun

Examples of hooded in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web There was a hooded viewer to look through, and extended on a T-junction about 6 inches away was a stand with wire frames to hold the cards, which were called stereographs. Jeff Suess, The Enquirer, 17 Mar. 2024 Officers grabbed onto the hooded portion of the man's sweatshirt to pull him off the tracks. Pilar Arias, Fox News, 14 Mar. 2024 About 35 minutes after the hooded joggers were seen near the Sementilli home, at 4:53 p.m., Fabio's black Porsche was seen on the same neighbor's security camera being driven away. Gabriella Demirdjian, CBS News, 10 Mar. 2024 The pool was perhaps the best thing that has ever happened to me, followed shortly by climbing into cotton candy-fluffy hooded Edition robe. Jocelyn Silver, Vogue, 8 Mar. 2024 While Hailey stood out in a neon yellow argyle sweater, Justin wore a black scarf wrapped around his head underneath a gray hooded sweatshirt. Kirsty Hatcher, Peoplemag, 6 Mar. 2024 Surveillance footage from nearby businesses, including the Diamond Inn Motel, which is connected to the club, shows a man in a black, hooded sweatshirt firing shots. Drake Bentley, Journal Sentinel, 5 Mar. 2024 Paired with Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul, and Jay Rock — the famed Black Hippy quartet at the center of Top Dawg Entertainment — Schoolboy Q has long seemed like the hooded thug quietly nursing a brew in the corner of the room, only to startle his friends with an energetic, hair-raising party chant. Mosi Reeves, Rolling Stone, 1 Mar. 2024 Cumacea are also known as hooded shrimp or comma shrimp. Moira Ritter, Miami Herald, 1 Mar. 2024

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Word History

First Known Use

15th century, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Time Traveler
The first known use of hooded was in the 15th century

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“Hooded.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hooded. Accessed 29 Mar. 2024.

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