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🧥 A hooded jacket 🧑 A young person
hoodie

hoodie

8 7.2
A young person who wears a hooded sweatshirt and may seem suspicious
  • noun
  • /ˈhudi/
  • Offensive
translation icon : [término despectivo] joven con sudadera con capucha
  • Who's the guy in the hoodie?
  • guy in a hoodie
  • wearing a hoodie
  • man in a hoodie

Examples

  • The young man in the black hoodie stood at the corner, observing everyone passing by.

  • Ordinary, law-abiding teenagers adopted the hoodie look because it was cool in a "gangsta" way, but not coincidentally, because it inspires fear or respect in other kids and adults.

    Academic text (2011)

  • Oh, I should probably be careful wearing a hoodie around here.

    Killer Raccoons 2: Dark Christmas in the Dark (2019)

  • A white guy with a hoodie.

    Death Wish (2018)

  • White guy in a hoodie.

    Death Wish (2018)

  • "Just because someone wears a hoodie does not make them a hoodlum."

    Blog text (21)

  • When he walked into the store wearing a hoodie, the clerk looked at him suspiciously.

  • I noticed a group of kids in hoodies lingering near the playground late at night.

Synonyms

hood rat
vshoodie
  • Offensive
5 9.9

An insulting word for a person from a poor neighborhood who behaves in a rough or criminal way

is an informal label that suggests suspicion based on clothing rather than criminal behavior

Antonyms

upstander
1 6.8

A person who speaks up to help others or stop unfair treatment

Compounds

cozy hoodie
  • US
1.1

A warm comfortable sweatshirt with a hood for relaxing or casual wear

hug-a-hoodie
9.1

A very large, thick sweatshirt you wear to feel warm and cozy

Surface Forms

hoodie singular
hoodies plural

Morphology

hoodie = hood (transparent) = hood + ie

Formed by 'hood' + colloquial/diminutive suffix '-ie', so learners who know 'hood' and casual '-ie' can infer 'person associated with a hood/hooded garment'.

Etymology

Hoodie can also mean a young person who often wears a hood; a helpful way to remember this is that people sometimes use hood from hoodlum meaning 'criminal', so hoodie became slang for someone who may seem suspicious because of their clothes.