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hoodie

Parf of speech: Noun, OED Year: 1990, OED Evaluation: N/A

A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.

ExampleMeaning
Interviewer: Yeah, they're like the hockey- they're jackets with a team emblem on them and they go over your head. Like they only have like a half zipper- Speaker: Yeah. Like a hoodie. Interviewer: Yeah, but it 's like a jacket with like a gor-- well, not gortex. They were always a hundred-and-fifty dollars. Everybody wanted one. And everybody always wanted the Chicago-Bulls or something-like- that.
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: I was confused. Just like all are. Interviewer: Trying to fit in. Speaker: You-know, trying to fit in, even though I didn't need to. I was still a rocker, Interviewer: Yeah. Speaker: But um yeah that's what- that's what I was. And m-- my- I- you-know- jeans. Now I wear hoodies 'cause it's cold but you-know t-shirts, polos. Interviewer: Okay. Speaker: That kind-of thing.
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: So he picked me up and he looked so nice. Like usually he just wears like some stupid c-- graphic brand tee-shirt and like- or like his ah- Interviewer: Jeans. Interviewer: Jeans and- Interviewer: Running-shoes. Interviewer: Running-shoes and then like a hoodie, always. All the time, with like some sort of hel-- brand-name hat. So then when he picked me up, he's wearing his nice wool jacket. Like ah, his dress jacket and then like, um a dress- sort-of-dressy zippie ...
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: Yep. You can't- you can't wear ah bandanas near Le-Bop or Le-Bistro either. Interviewer: Really? Speaker: 'Cause the gang-rate is very, very high. There, you can't wear a hood, a hoodie, and you can't wear any, like, insignia or anything like that. 'Cause one ti-- 'cause, like, as guide, as exec members, we have hoodies, right? And sometimes you just put your hood up. And we were walking in and they were like- basically, the bouncers grabbed us all and pushed us aside and was like, "Show us your I-D! What gang are you part of? Du-du-du-du-du!"
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.
Speaker: "We're on contract, we're not drinking, we have no alcohol, we have no guns, we have no knives, we have no this." Like, we're going through the list of- to try to ma-- they're like, "The only way we're letting you in is to take your hoodie off." Okay. Interviewer: (inc) safer right, yeah. Yeah. Speaker: Well, it's because they've had instances with gangs in that area, 'cause there's so many ah so many, you-know. There's- i-- it's riddled with youth-gangs. I'm being sarcastic (laughs)
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.
Interviewer: The slang terms in Northern-Ontario compared to Southern-Ontario. Speaker: Um the backpack-packsack thing? (laughs). Interviewer: It's (inc). Speaker: Yeah. Well, I noticed hoodie and sweatshirt. Some people were confused by that. I don't know if everyone would be, but I think some people were. Um. Interviewer: What about camp versus cottage?
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.
ExampleMeaning
... he just looked at my belt and was like "Take off the belt." I'm like "Okay whatever." So I went and put the belt away, but it sucked because he only singled me out when like there's three other people wearing high- with hoodies, like right beside and I was the one that they- like he picked on. Stupid.
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.
ExampleMeaning
Speaker: And I remember one of the Bloomberg girls, ah- her mother made her a- a- you know the hoods on- on- hoodies now. But anyway, you made- you made these- they were hats that were separate. Well, there was a little peak on it and, ah, coming home from school she's- she was the youngest and she was kind of a- her sisters said she was a sissy.
A hooded sweatshirt, fleece, or other garment.