noun
hood
A neighborhood, especially someone's local urban area.
Everyone in the hood knows the owner of this corner store.
Etymology
Hood shortens neighborhood by keeping its final syllable. The informal word usually refers to a local community or urban area familiar to the speaker.
More examples
- I still visit my old hood whenever I'm in town.
- She gives free art classes to kids from the hood.
- Our hood gets pretty quiet after the last bus leaves.
Forms
hood · hoods
Similar words
- neighborhood
- The neutral term, without the informal or specifically urban associations.
- district
- Often an officially defined area rather than someone's local community.