variants
or less commonly hoody
: a hooded sweatshirt
There were lots of kids milling around in this area, so I pulled what was left of my hoodie over my head and kept my face down, hands in pockets, as we made our way through the crowd.—
R. J. Palacio
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Brown, who was dressed in a white hoodie with Essentials: Fear of God written on it, and Dankwah were walked out of the 109th Precinct stationhouse in handcuffs Monday afternoon and taken to Queens Criminal Court to await arraignment.
—Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2025
Gulyás, Partizán’s founder and main anchor, took his place on set, wearing a hoodie, in front of a bank of vintage TVs.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Video circulating on social media shows a young man in a black hoodie with his back against a chain-link fence, alongside a security guard, surrounded by bystanders screaming and swearing at him.
—Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
And after dark, the dealers were impossible to miss: short young men in hoodies and women in pajama pants, slinking around corners with side packs.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
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Rocco Parascandola, New York Daily News, 28 Apr. 2025
Gulyás, Partizán’s founder and main anchor, took his place on set, wearing a hoodie, in front of a bank of vintage TVs.
—Andrew Marantz, New Yorker, 28 Apr. 2025
Video circulating on social media shows a young man in a black hoodie with his back against a chain-link fence, alongside a security guard, surrounded by bystanders screaming and swearing at him.
—Los Angeles Times, 27 Apr. 2025
And after dark, the dealers were impossible to miss: short young men in hoodies and women in pajama pants, slinking around corners with side packs.
—Jason Motlagh, Rolling Stone, 27 Apr. 2025
See All Example Sentences for hoodie
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“Hoodie.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/hoodie. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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