Definition of hood
hood 
noun
- shortened form of "neighborhood." Often implies a ghetto or urban community.
What hood are you from?
Citation from "Dentist Tarese", Louie (TV), Season 1 Episode 10 (2010) blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.I am from the hood.
- See more words with the same meaning: neighborhood.
Last edited on Apr 17 2013. Submitted by Anonymous on Aug 08 1997.
- a criminal or delinquent. Perhaps shortened from "hoodlum."
That guy is a hood.
Citation from "The sad, painful truth about the Vancouver rioters' true identities", The Globe and Mail, Gary Mason, June 17, 2011 blacked out to resolve Google's penalty against this site.- See more words with the same meaning: criminal, hooligan, gangster, gangsta.
Last edited on Oct 28 2011. Submitted by will from Ann Arbor, MI, USA on Mar 02 2003.
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Other terms relating to 'criminal, hooligan, gangster, gangsta': | |
| Definitions include: an undesirable person - usually one who is without morals or decency. | |
| Definitions include: to drive around in a vehicle for fun; "joy ride". | |
| Definitions include: displeasing; UNCOOL. | |
| Definitions include: euphemism for "suspect" in a criminal case. | |
| Definitions include: baby gangster. | |
| Definitions include: one who is good with the opposite sex. | |
| Definitions include: a person who smuggles undocumented aliens across the Mexico-US border into the United States, usually for a fee. | |
| Definitions include: to pretend, feign. | |
| Definitions include: a clique of people. | |
| Definitions include: to have, to take. | |
| Definitions include: someone who pretends to be a gangster. | |
| Definitions include: a member of the mafia (aka "mob.") | |
| Definitions include: someone who is in a gang. | |
| Definitions include: woman. | |
| Definitions include: a criminal. | |
Other terms relating to 'neighborhood': | |
| Definitions include: the area of a city with a concentration of businesses that cater to a largely homosexual client base. | |
| Definitions include: the area claimed by a person, group, gang, etc. | |
| Definitions include: lacking excitement or people; "boring". | |
| Definitions include: of superior quality, excellent; "cool". | |
| Definitions include: one's home neighborhood. | |
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Other terms relating to 'hood': | |
| Definitions include: a shortened term for "Glendale". | |
| Definitions include: Having an uncircumcised penis. | |
| Definitions include: clitoris. | |
| Definitions include: skanky, ghetto looking female who always hangs with groups of guys. | |
| Definitions include: stuff that a hood rat would do. | |
| Definitions include: when you are living in the hood, and you got like a HUD house, and you got a Benz outside. | |
| Definitions include: a metaphorical area that contains the underlying implementation of something - e.g. a piece of hardware, a piece of software, an idea, etc. | |
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