The word hooper is an archaic English term for a person who aided a
cooper
Cooper, Cooper's, Coopers and similar may refer to:
* Cooper (profession), a maker of wooden casks and other staved vessels
Arts and entertainment
* Cooper (producers), alias of Dutch producers Klubbheads
* Cooper (video game character), in ...
in the building of
barrels
A barrel or cask is a hollow cylindrical container with a bulging center, longer than it is wide. They are traditionally made of wooden staves and bound by wooden or metal hoops. The word vat is often used for large containers for liquids, u ...
by creating the hoop for the barrel. Hooper may also refer to:
Place names in the United States:
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Hooper, Colorado
The Town of Hooper is a Statutory Town located in the San Luis Valley in Alamosa County, Colorado, United States. The population was 103 at the 2010 census.
Geography
Hooper is located at (37.745819, -105.876817).
According to the United St ...
, town in Alamosa County, Colorado
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Hooper, Georgia Hooper is an unincorporated community in Haralson County, in the U.S. state of Georgia.
History
A post office called Hooper was established in 1881, and remained in operation until 1903. The community was named after Joseph M. Hooper, proprietor of ...
, an unincorporated community
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Hooper, Nebraska
Hooper is a city in Dodge County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 830 at the 2010 census.
History
Hooper got its start in the year 1871, following construction of the Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri Valley Railroad through the territo ...
, town in Dodge County, Nebraska
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Hooper, Utah
Hooper is a city in Weber County, Utah, United States, first called Muskrat Springs and later Hooperville for Captain William Henry Hooper, an early Utah delegate to Congress. The population was 9,087 at the 2020 census, up from the 2010 figu ...
, place in Weber County, Utah
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Hooper Bay, Alaska
Hooper Bay ( esu, Naparyaarmiut) is a city in Kusilvak Census Area, Alaska, United States. At the 2020 census the population was 1,375, up from 1,093 in 2010.
On August 3, 2006, a major fire destroyed approximately fifteen acres of the city in ...
, town in Alaska
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Hooper Township, Dodge County, Nebraska
Hooper Township is one of fourteen townships in Dodge County, Nebraska, United States. The population was 1,160 at the 2020 census. A 2021 estimate placed the township's population at 1,131.
Most of the Village of Hooper as well as the entire ...
Other:
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''Hooper'' (film), 1978 comedy film starring Burt Reynolds
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Hooper (mascot)
The Detroit Pistons are an American professional basketball team based in Detroit. The Pistons compete in the National Basketball Association (NBA) as a member of the league's Eastern Conference Central Division and play their home games at Li ...
, the mascot for the National Basketball Association team, Detroit Pistons
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Hooper (coachbuilder)
Hooper & Co. was a British coachbuilding business for many years based in Westminster London. From 1805 to 1959 it was a notably successful maker, to special order, of luxury carriages, both horse-drawn and motor-powered.
Founding
The com ...
, a British coachbuilder fitting bodies to many Rolls-Royce and Daimler cars
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USS ''Hooper'' (DE-1026), a destroyer escort in the US Navy
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Hooper Ratings
The C. E. Hooper Company was an American company which measured radio and television ratings during the Golden Age of Radio. Founded in 1934 by Claude E. Hooper (1898–1954), the company provided information on the most popular radio shows of the ...
, an early audience measurement in early radio and television
* Hooper, someone who practices dance form of
Hooping Hooping (also called hula hooping or hoop dance) is the manipulation of and artistic movement or dancing with a hoop (or hoops). Hoops can be made of metal, wood, or plastic. Hooping combines technical moves and tricks with freestyle or technical ...
People with the surname Hooper:
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Hooper (surname) Hooper (or Hoopes) is a surname originating in England. It is derived from the archaic term for a person who aided in the building of barrels by creating the hoop for the barrel. Most Hoopers are English or of English descent. Notable individuals n ...
See also
* ''Hooper'', an animated mascot for
PBS Kids
PBS Kids is the brand for most of the children's programming aired by the Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) in the United States. Some public television children's programs are not produced by PBS member stations or transmitted by PBS. Instead, ...
Television
* Hooper X, a character in Kevin Smith's 1997 film ''
Chasing Amy
''Chasing Amy'' is a 1997 American romantic comedy-drama film written and directed by Kevin Smith and starring Ben Affleck, Joey Lauren Adams, and Jason Lee. The film is about a male comic artist (Affleck) who falls in love with a lesbian woma ...
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Hoppity Hooper
''Hoppity Hooper'' is an American animated television series produced by Jay Ward, and sponsored by General Mills, originally broadcast on ABC from September 12, 1964 until 1967. The series was produced in Hollywood by Jay Ward and Bill Scott, ...
'', American animated television series in the 1960s
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Hooper's Store
Hooper's Store is a fictional business and meeting-place on the television show ''Sesame Street''. When the show began, the store was one of the four main locations on the set representing the fictional Sesame Street, with the 123 Sesame Street b ...
, store on the children's TV show ''Sesame Street''
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Cooper (surname)
Cooper is an English surname originating in England; see Cooper (profession). Occasionally it is an Anglicized form of the German surname Kiefer. Cooper is the 8th most common surname in Liberia and 27th most common in England.
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Justice Hooper (disambiguation) Justice Hooper may refer to:
* Perry O. Hooper Sr., chief justice of the Alabama Supreme Court
* Robert Lettis Hooper, chief justice of the New Jersey Supreme Court
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