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Chip2447 Folklore: Slang words (71* d) RE: Folklore: Slang words 13 Jul 05


Around here a crest in the road used to be called whoopty do, or a hoopty do. and any car that you drove over a hoopty do fast enough to get air under all four tires was called a hoopty, enough hooptying and you wound up with a broken down old car.

I suspect that the term hoopty predates hip hop.

Chip2447


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