Used in a Sentence

hoops

Definition, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for hoops.

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If you have to make people jump through hoops, at least you might try and make the hoops at least somewhat meaningful.

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Quick take

(US, slang) Basketball.

Meaning at a glance

The clearest senses and uses of hoops gathered in one view.

noun

(US, slang) Basketball.

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for hoops.

noun

(US, slang) Basketball.

Example sentences

1

If you have to make people jump through hoops, at least you might try and make the hoops at least somewhat meaningful.

2

Installing a program is not too many hoops.

3

You talk about going through many hoops, talking to many people, and a lot of weight given to college.

4

We shouldn't ask them to jump through 15 hoops or deal with the the slowness of Tor.

5

That's a bargain when you consider all the visa run hassles, hoops and what not in a place like Thailand.

6

It's kind of annoying that OS X requires jumping through these hoops, but at least there's a few solutions out there.

7

But how else do I deliver my software without making users jump through download + install + update hoops?

8

That's too many hoops for a child learning programming to jump through.

9

Getting paid would make me much more willing to jump through hoops.

10

I decided to just jump through the MS hoops of doing it 'their way' and it all seemed to work just fine.

11

I've seen other open source projects jump through these hoops specifically for those reasons.

12

Last time I tried, I had to jump through hoops to get it to understand node imports and it wouldn't work without magical comments.

Quote examples

1

Now, you do have to pass the "native" option to the code compiler to make it compile to native code, but you don't need to jump through any more hoops than that.

2

The takeaway mistake would be to propose technical or legal solutions that would "prevent" something like this from happening again, like adding hoops to jump through or harsh penalizations that could chill legitimate prosecution elsewhere for fear of community retaliation.

3

The rejections that are most annoying are those in which the employer has candidates jump through numerous "hoops" and then rejects them, especially if the rejection is "oh you passed the test but we don't think you fit the culture" or something similar.

4

It is composable and semantically complete; if you can write it with SQL, you can write it with Ibis, often with substantially less code." This sounds really interesting, but my biggest gripe with pandas is that I often know exactly the query I want to run with SQL but have to jump through a ton of hoops and a weird join syntax to figure out how to make the query in pandas.

Frequently asked questions

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How do you use hoops in a sentence?

If you have to make people jump through hoops, at least you might try and make the hoops at least somewhat meaningful.

What does hoops mean?

(US, slang) Basketball.

What part of speech is hoops?

hoops is commonly used as noun.