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  • noun slang an old, worn-out car.

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Examples

  • First of all, I thought I was the only one who used the word hoopty so yay for that word!

    Ann Aguirre » Blog Archive » Author websites 2009

  • That's not the final product, plus, is the car referred as a "hoopty" (urban term) because Obama's black??

    Bossip.com 2009

  • A rehab coin dangles from the rear-view mirror of his hoopty on an afternoon cruise by his home — the one his aunt left him.

    Breaking Bad Recap: Episode 2 “Caballo Sin Nombre” is Set to the Sounds of America | /Film 2010

  • A hoopty is any car that deserves to be junked -- perhaps you've heard the lyric "My hoopty rollin ', tailpipe draggin', heat don't work an 'my girl keeps naggin'," by the rap artist Sir Mix-a-Lot?

    Automotive Terms You Need To Know 2010

  • But you may aim for more if you have a hoopty or a big vacation coming up.

    Color of Money Live 2010

  • I hop in my other hoopty—a blue four-door Chevy Impala, drive up Ocean Avenue, and make a left onto Broadway to get to the parkway.

    Daddy Long Stroke Cairo 2010

  • “Where is this broken-down hoopty of yours?” she asked.

    When the Truth Lies Timothy Michael Carson 2010

  • Mark Cuban made a parody of FreeCreditReport. com's "New Car" ad featuring Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, and Timothy Geithner cruising around in a hoopty, singing about ...

    William K. Black: Why Is Geithner Continuing Paulson's Policy of Violating the Law? 2009

  • Mark Cuban made a parody of FreeCreditReport. com's "New Car" ad featuring Ben Bernanke, Hank Paulson, and Timothy Geithner cruising around in a hoopty, singing about ...

    Alan Schram: Saving the Banks 2009

  • NEVERTHELESS, I applaud anyone on a bicycle from the lady on the tricycle hauling her children around in the back, to the person who has no money and rides the huffy she found in the garbage the wrong way up the Tomkins bike lane to the hip hoopty rider, to the keirin rider to the trick track riders, bmx, freestyle, mountain, trials riders, to the club riders blazing up the palisades.

    You Must Be Crazy: Strength of Conviction BikeSnobNYC 2009

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  • An old, beat-up, but still running, car.

    February 6, 2009

  • I'd forgotten this word. Mmmmmm. :)

    February 7, 2009

  • Actually on the street it is more than an "old worn out car".

    A hoopty is more likely to be an older car with "bling" accessories. Those might be rotating hubcaps, large rims worth more than a car, fake aerodynamic wings, etc. You get the idea.

    September 26, 2011