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SOT: Car trivia question - where does "Hoopdy" com


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Trying to find out the origin of the term. I did learn the origin of the word Jalopy (named after Jalopa, Mexico).

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the term "It's a doozy" comes from Duesenberg--the most powerful US car in the 30's (265hp supercharged)

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Overheard once on the 4500 block of West Oakland in

urban St. Louis:

"DAMN but that's a madass phat hoopdy he just rolled up

in! Where'd that motherf*cker buy *that*? Those dubs be

CLEAN."

And that's the censored version.

hoopdy = cool, not cool, ghetto-ish, not-ghetto-ish,

any number of things, but they all apply to somebody's

"phat" ride.

mike, methinks you might need to spend more time in the

ghetto.

But then, don't we all :)

Mad skillz, yo

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....in these parts(Milwaukee/Chicago metro areas) a "hoopdee" refers to a $50 car. A real piece of shit. Definitely not fly at all. No self respectin b17ch would set her a$z in one. The polar opposite of a Lincoln Navigator with 22 inch wheels. Started in the African American vernacular but has since been adopted by us Euro-Americans, usually to describe our work rides. Behold the quintessential hoopdee. The 1975 Buick Electra 225 or "deuce".

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Ditto. Mike and I in Ohio and Indiana (respectively) don't keep up on things quite as well as those of you of the larger cities.

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