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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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 hoods
Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
Their hoods are covered with special plugs where 2,200 corals grown at the Miami Native Coral Lab in Allapattah will be screwed in.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
Some hoods have indicator lights to signal when filters need to be changed.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
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
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, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The wind and the rain and the churn of the engine, the hats and the hoods, all worked together to keep them from hearing anything.
—Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
In the first minutes, after the group of influencers, athletes, models, podcasters and actors are driven into the the desert in Morocco, their military manhandlers storm the bus and put black hoods over the heads, marching them into the unknown.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
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And now Orange Mound is one of the most violent hoods in Memphis, Tennessee.
—Jayson Buford, Rolling Stone, 3 Nov. 2025
Their hoods are covered with special plugs where 2,200 corals grown at the Miami Native Coral Lab in Allapattah will be screwed in.
—Ashley Miznazi, Miami Herald, 21 Oct. 2025
Some hoods have indicator lights to signal when filters need to be changed.
—Nafeesah Allen, Better Homes & Gardens, 20 Oct. 2025
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
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, Freep.com, 3 Oct. 2025
The wind and the rain and the churn of the engine, the hats and the hoods, all worked together to keep them from hearing anything.
—Ann Patchett, New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2025
In the first minutes, after the group of influencers, athletes, models, podcasters and actors are driven into the the desert in Morocco, their military manhandlers storm the bus and put black hoods over the heads, marching them into the unknown.
—Gil Kaufman, Billboard, 26 Sep. 2025
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“Hoods.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/hoods. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.
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