hooded

1. 1
   adjective

   Of a garment, having a hood attached to it.

   A hooded parka is the best defense against the wind on the ridge.

   The store's hooded rain capes sold out within a week.

2. 2
   adjective

   Wearing a hood, with the head covered by it.

   A hooded figure slipped out of the alley and vanished into the crowd.

   Hooded monks filed silently into the chapel for evening prayers.

   Oppositebareheaded

3. 3
   adjective

   Of the eyes, having thick eyelids that droop over them.

   Makeup artists often use a lighter shadow to open up hooded eyes.

   He studied his cards through hooded eyes, giving nothing away.

   Similarheavy-lidded

4. 4
   adjective

   Having a hood placed over it as a covering.

   A hooded hawk stays calm because it cannot see what is going on around it.

   Hooded headlights threw only a thin strip of light onto the blacked-out road.

5. 5
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of hood.

   The guards hooded the prisoners before loading them onto the truck.

   A broad stone ledge hooded the cave's entrance and kept the floor inside dry.

   Note

   The past tense and the past participle share this spelling: the guards hooded the prisoners, and the prisoners were hooded. Besides covering, the verb can mean jutting out over something, as a stone ledge hooded a cave mouth. The participle slides easily into an adjective, so a hooded hawk may be one somebody hooded or simply one with a hood over it.

6. 6
   adjective

   Of an animal, having a crest or a similar stretch of elastic skin, muscle or bone on the neck or behind the head.

   The hooded cobra reared up and flared its neck at the intruder.

   Hooded lizards spread the loose skin behind their heads to look bigger to rivals.

7. 7
   adjective

   Formed in the shape of a hood.

   Each blossom bears a hooded upper petal that arches over the stamens.

   Waves had worn the cliff into a hooded overhang above the beach.

8. 8
   adjective

   Of a fancy rat, having one unbroken line of color running from the whole head down the spine, sometimes continuing toward the tail.

   We adopted two hooded rats from the shelter, one black and one gray.

   The breeder's best hooded doe had a stripe that ran unbroken all the way to her tail.

9. 9
   adjectiveslang

   Uncircumcised.

   On the forum, one man asked whether being hooded had ever bothered his partners.

   He grinned and said that, unlike his brothers, he was still hooded.

   Similaruncut, uncircumcised

   Oppositecut, circumcised

   Note

   Casual talk borrows the image of the foreskin as a hood, and the result is slang that stays uncommon even among friends. It suits joking conversation or an anonymous forum; with a doctor, in writing, or in any polite setting, uncircumcised is the clear and safe word.

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