Synonyms for 'hood
hʊd'hood

Princeton's WordNet

1. 'hoodnoun

   (slang) a neighborhood

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1. Clifford V. Villalon:

   Long time ago, there is a known gentleman named Robin Hood being chased because of stealing for a good cause. There is no more 'Robin Hoods' at the present time, but the good cause is still chasing for gentlemen to come out.

2. Howie Choset:

   These modules that we have designed and other modules to be designed, they are like a smart Lego set. We are able to put the modules together as easy as Lego, but there is a lot going on underneath the hood to allow that to happen.

3. Herbert Hovenkamp:

   It means the court is entitled to look under the hood, the district judge got it wrong by adopting a categorical rule that because the banks were cooperating in setting Libor they could not be violating antitrust rules.

4. Shawn Manning:

   Nowhere in the act, however, does it offer combat benefits for service members permanently disabled in attacks inspired or motivated by foreign terrorist organizations. Although subsequent and guidance may change, currently, the Board has no authority to award V1/V3 (service related) designation to soldiers disabled during the Fort Hood attack.

5. Stacey Plaskett:

   Qualified immunity has in many instances become the hood for bad police officers to, in fact, act as modern-day Ku Klux Klan members against Black and Isaiah Brown people in this country. And it has got to stop, the most conservative members of the Supreme Court say that Congress needs to do something about qualified immunity. And we can not shirk our responsibility to victims and Americans at large because we are afraid of the unions, or talking points, or those on the right who have used the blue wall as a shield against American justice.