A fork of Rural Dictionary
see above definition, but anywhere in the Pennsylvania-West Virginia-Ohio tri-state region. Usually associated with trailer parks, dirty hair, and heavy metal band tee-shirts. See trucks and dirtbikes and hoopie mall.
If you drive down to Brady's Run in the spring, past the trialer park, you'll pass all them hoopies out with their 70's era cars on blocks and their Natty Ice.
An insult (worse than hillbilly) given to residents of West Virginia. According to history, the city of East Liverpool OH, across the river from WV, was an important maker of pottery. West Virginia residents looking for work in the area were only skilled enough to bang together the metal strips that would make the hoops needed for barrel construction.
We're playing the Mountaineers in basketball? They're a bunch of stupid hoopies.
a local resident living in a college town in central PA, often mullet clad and wearing flannel. Sometimes even found using the electricity in the 24 hour laudramat to power their juice maker, hoopies try and pick up college girls using a thug like accent in local bars.
kate "that hoopie child just bit my chapstick!"
kaufhold "so this hoopie tried to pick me up at chucks..."
"not every hoopie can pull off a rat tail like sally yohn"
A homemade vehicle for back road use.
They are usually built using an old car or truck frame with the drivetrain parts intact.They are very minimal and are used for off road purposes as they have very few parts that can be damaged by collisions with trees,rocks,and other obstructions.
Rural settings are the only place you will ever see one of these creations because they are strictly illegal for use on any highway.
To get an idea of what a Hoopie looks like,think of the Beverly Hillbilly's truck (actually an Oldsmobile Touring Car) without any kind of body.
Seeing a Hoopie can bring good luck.
In AZ it is a car that is or at least should not be street legal loud pipes etc ( also cheep car ) .
Man Jacks car is in the shop and now all he has to drive is thay old hoopie. or
His car was nice till the wreck now it's just a hoopie.
Southern, or at least Okie-speak meaning an older or at least "rundown" car. My Dad used it all the time.
Well if this old hoopie/hoopy lasts another couple of months I'm gonna trade it off.