A fork of Rural Dictionary
Uncircumcised, intact, unmutilated by surgery.
When Steve dropped trou in the locker room, we could all see he was hooded.
A poor area or estate within a city or town, accociated with gangs and crime. Term seems to stem from African-American slang although it has crossed over into mainstream language through the media.
Doughboy (complaining about TV news coverage):
"Either they don't know, don't show, or don't care about what's going on in the hood. They had all this foreign shit. They didn't have shit on my brother, man." - from the 1991 John Singleton movie, "Boyz n the Hood"
When you pull the foreskin of an uncircumcised penis over the head of another penis. This is a formal greeting ritual among some cultures, and to be hooded is an exxxtreme honor.
"Grandpa, what does hooding mean?"
"Let me show you. Pull down your pants. Prepare yourself for honor."
Attatched to sweatshirts...Often pulled over the head when the weather is cold or rainy.
Put your hood on, Little Timmy, it's cold outside.
A place where some African American folk ususally claim they are from. They usually aspire to fantacies of escaping from "the hood" but most fail. However some actually do manage to escape from this 'hood' through their talents in the Rap and hip-hop industry.
The hood is also an area of heavy crime, and corrupt police force. Hoods are usually owned by organized crime organizations known as Street gangs. Which deal in the drug trade, prostitution, and theft.
Recently, hoods are becoming not only something of the African American race, but something of all races and cultures including hispanics, whites, etc, this hood-mentality has been spread through the increasing popularity of Rap and Hip-hop music, "gangster culture", and the underfunding of the police force allowed by the government.
The hood is a bad place, where you don't want to be, simple as that.