English
Noun
hoopy
#(slang): really together guy. Slang from the popular w:Douglas Adams|Douglas Adams novel, w:The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy|The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
#:The novel provides this example of its use:
#:*"Hence a phrase which has passed into hitch-hiking slang, as in "Hey, you sass that hoopy Ford Prefect? There's a frood who really knows where his towel is."
See also
w:Ford Prefect (character)|Ford Prefect
frood
sass
towel
References
Douglas Noel Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, (Vol.1,Ch.3.p25) ISBN 0517542099
The Ultra-Complete Index to the Hitch Hiker's Guide to the Galaxy Matthias Maul 1992-1994.
Category:Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
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