What is a hoopie?

Answer 1

Has Multiple Meanings

Hoopie is a slang term used in the Upper Ohio River Valley in the Ohio, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia area. Originally used in the East Liverpool, Ohio area to refer to people from the hill areas of West Virginia who would bring saplings in to town to sell to coppers to make barrels, it is a derogatory term, much like hillbilly and hilljack, that is still in use today.

Hoopie is also used to refer to vehicles. One use is for a straight truck used in the trucking industry to make deliveries, often to residences or where streets are narrow. The trucks sometimes have refrigeration units or lifts attached.

A vehicle made from a car or truck chassis and having homemade seats is referred to as a hoopie in the rural parts of Northwestern Pennsylvania. Not street legal, they are used to travel on trails in the woods.

African-Americans in Michigan sometimes refer to junky-looking cars as hoopies.