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part shelter, part disguise, part flag — the cloth that decides how the world reads you
means A covering for the head and neck, usually attached to a garment, that shields you from weather or hides your face — and, by extension, the neighborhood you call home.
from From Old English 'hod,' the simple word for a head-covering, a cousin of 'hat' and of German 'Hut.' That same 'hood' surfaces as a suffix in words like 'childhood' and 'brotherhood,' where an older sense — 'condition, state, rank' — survives. The slang 'hood' meaning neighborhood is a 20th-century American shortening of 'neighborhood,' and 'hood' for a tough or criminal is a separate clip, from 'hoodlum,' a late-19th-century American word of murky origin (the popular tales about a backwards-spelled gang leader's name are almost certainly invented).
- engine origin
- car hood named for blacksmith covers over coal
- executioner's mask
- hoods hid faces so victims couldn't curse them
- falcon training
- hawks wear hoods to keep them calm
- word root
- shares ancestry with 'hat' and 'hut'
- monk gear
- hooded robes inspired the word 'hoodlum' loosely
compton — neighborhood in los angeles, california with 93,000 residents, birthplace of gangsta rap culture
south side chicago — area of chicago covering 50+ square miles, historically known for street gangs and violence
brooklyn new york — borough of new york city with 2.6 million people, iconic hip-hop and street culture center since 1980s