hood

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   protective covering consisting of a metal part that covers the engine

   there are powerful engines under the hoods of new cars

2. 2
   verb

   cover with a hood

   The bandits were hooded

3. 3
   noun

   Gangster, thug.

   Teen-age hoods steal cars in cities, take them into the pines, strip them, ignite them, and leave the scene.

4. 4
   noun

   A neighborhood.

   What’s goin’ down in the hood?

5. 5
   name

   A surname.

   Last month, Fort Hood in Texas, another major military installation, was redesignated Fort Cavazos, in honor of Gen. Richard Edward Cavazos, a veteran of the Korean and Vietnam wars who became the first Hispanic person to wear four stars on his uniform.

6. 6
   noun

   (zoology) an expandable part or marking that resembles a hood on the head or neck of an animal

7. 7
   noun

   a headdress that protects the head and face

8. 8
   noun

   the folding roof of a carriage

Etymology

From Middle English hood, hod, from Old English hōd, from Proto-West Germanic *hōd, from Proto-Germanic *hōdaz, from Proto-Indo-European *kadʰ- (“to cover”). See also Saterland Frisian Houd (“hat; hood”), West Frisian/Dutch hoed (“hat”), Cimbrian huat, huut (“hat”), German Hut (“hat”), German Low German Hood (“hat; hood”), Luxembourgish Hutt (“hat”); also Proto-Iranian *xawdaH (“hat”) (Avestan 𐬑𐬂𐬛𐬀 (xåda), Old Persian 𐎧𐎢𐎭 (x-u-d /⁠xaudā⁠/)). More at hat.