Hooper’s Hide, subs. phr. (old venery).—Copulation. For synonyms, see Greens.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., i., 278. The while that his wife with Willy Was playing at Hooper’s Hide.
Hoop-stick, subs. (common).—The arm. For synonyms, see Chalk Farm.
Hoosier, subs. (American).—A native of Indiana. [Perhaps the most reasonable of several ingenious explanations is, that in the early days the customary challenge or greeting in that region was, ‘Who’s yer?’ (who’s here?): pronounced hoosier.—Norton.]
1843. D. Corcoran, A Genuine Hoosier. An original character is your genuine Hoosier. By genuine, we mean such a one as has all the attributes that peculiarly belong to the back-woodsmen of the West.
1847. Darley, Drama in Pokerville, p. 197. None of them ‘cotton’d’ to him more kindly than an elderly hoosier from the innermost depths of Indiana.
1848. Durivage, Stray Subjects, p. 79. There is a swarm of ‘suckers,’ ‘hoosiers,’ ‘buckeyes,’ ‘corn-crackers,’ and ‘wolverines’ eternally on the qui vive in those parts.
Hooter, subs. (American).—1. A steam-whistle; an American devil (q.v.).
2. (colloquial).—A wooden trumpet, so contrived as to make a horrible noise.
3. (American).—A corruption of ‘iota’: e.g., ‘I don’t care a hooter for him.’