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Word of the Day: Hoopty (slang)
A hoopty is a car that you don’t like.
Do you have one?
Does your friend?
Maybe your next-door neighbour has an ugly vehicle parked in their driveway, and you can’t stand it.
First, you need to know what a hoopty is, right?
Well, it’s a name for a car and has a broad range of meanings, but basically, a hoopty is any car that you think is no good in style or performance.
There is a guy in London who has a golden Ferrari.
I believe that it’s a hoopty because I don’t think it looks cool.
It’s too flashy for my taste.
Many people feel the car in the picture is a hoopty, but I think it looks cool.
I love the design aspects of older American cars from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s.
Flesch-Kincaid Readability Test
This post is simple and easy to read.
It’s likely to be understood by someone with at least a 6th-grade education (age 11).
On the Flesch-Kincaid reading-ease test, this post scores 88.
The easier a passage is to read, the higher the score on a scale of 0 – 100.
