What is a Hooptie?
By Timothy Tibbetts |
A hooptie is one of those slang words that many people aren't familiar with or know what it means.
Hooptie is a slang word to describe a car, truck, or SUV someone owns that is usually well past its best days.
A hooptie can be any car that is usually older, beat up, but still being driven, often as a daily driver. It usually describes an older, high mileage car that might have faded or damaged paint, broken doors, a loud muffler, and who knows what else. The car would be barely roadworthy.
The slang hoopty has been around since the '50s and '60s, with many people from Detroit remembering it as ghetto cruisers. The Cadillac Coupe Deville was the car to own, which many nicknamed the coupe d for short. Take the C out of coupe d, and you have what sounds like hooptie. So, ironically, a word once used to describe the car everyone wanted to have, did an entire about-face and became a derogatory slang word. At this point, and for many years later, hooptie was not only used to describe a beater but an owner who is proud of it. Nowadays, a hooptie can be any old clunker.
In many cases, people will spell hoopty as hoopty, whooptie, and whoopty. You can spell it any way you like, but once the Oxford English Dictionary and Urban Dictionary decided it was hooptie, that became the official way to spell it.
After the '50s and '60s, hooptie has only made a few notable appearances in popular culture.
Sir Mix-A-Lot gets credit for making hooptie popular decades later with his song "My Hooptie."
Grand Theft Auto 5 players might remember when the character "Simeon" gave you a mission to steal and deliver a hoopty.
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Hooptie is a slang word to describe a car, truck, or SUV someone owns that is usually well past its best days.
A hooptie can be any car that is usually older, beat up, but still being driven, often as a daily driver. It usually describes an older, high mileage car that might have faded or damaged paint, broken doors, a loud muffler, and who knows what else. The car would be barely roadworthy.
The slang hoopty has been around since the '50s and '60s, with many people from Detroit remembering it as ghetto cruisers. The Cadillac Coupe Deville was the car to own, which many nicknamed the coupe d for short. Take the C out of coupe d, and you have what sounds like hooptie. So, ironically, a word once used to describe the car everyone wanted to have, did an entire about-face and became a derogatory slang word. At this point, and for many years later, hooptie was not only used to describe a beater but an owner who is proud of it. Nowadays, a hooptie can be any old clunker.
In many cases, people will spell hoopty as hoopty, whooptie, and whoopty. You can spell it any way you like, but once the Oxford English Dictionary and Urban Dictionary decided it was hooptie, that became the official way to spell it.
After the '50s and '60s, hooptie has only made a few notable appearances in popular culture.
Sir Mix-A-Lot gets credit for making hooptie popular decades later with his song "My Hooptie."
Grand Theft Auto 5 players might remember when the character "Simeon" gave you a mission to steal and deliver a hoopty.
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