hoopa

This drumlike object was handled by that division of the performers called the hoopa'a, who sat in full view of the audience manipulating the ipu in a quiet, sentimental manner, similar to that employed in the hula kuolo.

Unwritten Literature of Hawaii The Sacred Songs of the Hula Nathaniel Bright Emerson 1877

Take a loss like a man, not like some gangsta-hoopa, which is what's WRONG with the NBA.

Examiner California Headlines 2010

I cannot imagine why the media is making a big hoopa about Palin when they themselves know she is dumb.

Palin PAC raises $730K in six months 2009

And you just drop in and just smack the lip, hoopa.

CNN Transcript Mar 15, 2005 2005

It -- under a hoopa (ph), the traditional Jewish wedding canopy.

CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Cokie and Steve Roberts Discuss Their New Book - February 3, 2000 2000

S. ROBERTS. Well, at the beginning of the day, they had asked me to -- for the hoopa, the wedding canopy, to pick something from my garden to put over the wedding couple, and I knew exactly -- immediately what I should do.

CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Cokie and Steve Roberts Discuss Their New Book - February 3, 2000 2000

S. ROBERTS. In fact, you know, Larry at our daughter's wedding, we had a hoopa, a Jewish wedding canopy, and Cokie had been worrying for weeks and months it was going to rain.

CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Cokie and Steve Roberts Discuss Their New Book - February 3, 2000 2000

S. ROBERTS. And Cokie is sitting under the hoopa and says a prayer saying, thank you, God, for this lovely day and for keeping the weather so wonderful, and at that instant, the skies opened up and it poured.

CNN Transcript - Larry King Live: Cokie and Steve Roberts Discuss Their New Book - February 3, 2000 2000

Mamua o ka holo ana, olelo aku ka wahine ia Aiwohikupua, "Ke holo pu nei kakou, e hookaawale mai ko'u wahi, kaawale aku ko olua wahi, aole o na kanaka, ua akaka ko lakou wahi, mai hoopa mai oukou ia'u, aole hoi au e hoopa ia oukou a hiki wale i Kohala, e noho maluhia loa kakou a pau."

The Hawaiian Romance Of Laieikawai Martha Warren Beckwith 1915

One day it would be a performance of the _Ataboi_, the languorously sensuous dance which we had first seen in the women's compound; again he would stage a scene of feasting, at which the men passed foaming shells of _hoopa_ from hand to hand.

The Cruise of the Kawa 1911