as in thug
a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang
when a gang of hoods started hanging out in front of the store, customers went elsewhere
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as in cloak
something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth
counterfeiters conducting their affairs under a hood of secrecy
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as in thugs
a violent, brutal person who is often a member of an organized gang
when a gang of hoods started hanging out in front of the store, customers went elsewhere
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as in cloaks
something that covers or conceals like a piece of cloth
counterfeiters conducting their affairs under a hood of secrecy
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Recent Examples of hood
Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2025
The car is painted in Jet Black, has a 2-inch cowl hood, 18-inch CCW SA50 three-piece billet wheels and Carter’s Customs side splitters.
—Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
By the mid-50s, Chrysler beefed up the 331 cubic inch engines into 392 cubic inch V-8s, stuffing them beneath the hoods of New Yorkers and Imperials.
—Liam Rappleye, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
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Noun
Whether or not this is the David Zaslav run company wanting to avoid a MAGA dust-up during sensitive looks under the hood by potential buyers like Comcast, Netflix or David Ellison’s Paramount, the radio silence is bizarre.
—Dominic Patten, Deadline, 9 Nov. 2025
The car is painted in Jet Black, has a 2-inch cowl hood, 18-inch CCW SA50 three-piece billet wheels and Carter’s Customs side splitters.
—Keenan Thompson, USA Today, 7 Nov. 2025
Noun
The thieves were wearing construction worker uniforms and hoods over their heads, said an investigator from the Banditry Repression Brigade, a special police unit of the French Ministry of the Interior that investigates robberies and art theft.
—Kevin Shalvey, ABC News, 19 Oct. 2025
By the mid-50s, Chrysler beefed up the 331 cubic inch engines into 392 cubic inch V-8s, stuffing them beneath the hoods of New Yorkers and Imperials.
—Liam Rappleye, USA Today, 6 Oct. 2025
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“Hood.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hood. Accessed 28 Dec. 2025.
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