A hoopie is American dialectal slang for a beat-up, worn-out old car that's seen better decades. It's the kind of vehicle that rattles when it idles, leaks something it probably shouldn't, and has a paint job that's more of a concept at this point. The term has a good-natured, self-deprecating quality — you'd call your own junker a hoopie before complaining about it. It's dated slang, more common in older or rural American speech, but still evocative of anyone who's ever driven something that barely qualified as a car.
He drove that hoopie for six more years after everyone told him it wasn't worth fixing.
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(US, dialectal, dated) An old, worn-out car.
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