hooplehead 

a member of the ignorant masses; an uneducated commoner; an idiot. word popularized by HBO's Deadwood

Try not to use big words-- it confuses the hoopleheads.

hooplehead by liberalicious September 9, 2005

Hooplehead 

Hooplehead" referred to the people that made the hoops that went around wooden barrels. The job took little skill and not much brains..... thus "hooplehead" meant an unskilled laborer

You: "Don't u have a hooplehead to clean up all this poop? "
Me: "Adams cleaning it up tonight."

Hooplehead by Antiitalian February 3, 2022

hoodlehead 

A nice of way of calling someone an asshole.

ie- nutjob

"That's what we used to call him down at Dundalk, a hoodlehead."

hoodlehead by yonks July 10, 2014

hoopelhead 

an ignorant, backwoods, dim-witted, slow-thinking, muddle-headed, addle-brained, limp-dick, dumb-ass cocksucker.

E.B. Farnum is a hoopelhead.

hoopelhead by Joe Wilson April 18, 2005

hoople head 

"There is a real place called Hoople, in North Dakota, spiritually not too far removed from the real Deadwood in South Dakota, though the two places are at opposite corners of the states. Hoople, however, is a tiny place even today (population about 300) and can hardly have been significant enough in 1876—even if it existed then—to be the source of a deprecatory comment."

"According to Professor Jonathan Lighter’s Historical Dictionary of American Slang, it probably derives from Major Hoople, who was a character in a once-famous cartoon strip entitled Our Boarding House, which featured the goings-on at Martha Hoople’s rooming establishment. It was written and drawn by Gene Ahern and began to appear in September 1921..."

"...It would not have been possible for Al Swearengen (Deadwood) to have used the word in 1876, 40+ years before Gene Ahern invented the character (Major Hoople) and a hundred years before it was first recorded in print. The producer and head of the scriptwriting team (HBO: Deadwood), David Milch, has been reported as saying in essence that he picked something out of the air to serve as a suitable insult without great concern for its etymology. It seems he must have heard it somewhere and it came conveniently back to mind while writing the scripts. It’s definitely an anachronism."

"Those damn writers on Deadwood don't research their slang words, but that doesn't stop Grandma from calling everyone a 'hoople head' anyways."

hoople head by The Chanel September 16, 2008

hoople-head 

(Origin - unknown) n. - Hoople-head is probably derived from the word hoople, which means hobo or buffoon. See the 1960s novel by Willard Manus entitled, "Mott the Hoople".

As used in Deadwood, an HBO original series, "...bunch of f#$%ing hoople heads."

hoople-head by Ken Serrine March 31, 2005

hoople head 

I just spoke with my Uncle who is almost 90 years old. He said he recalls the word of Hoop Head being used when he was a young man. It's meaning was a "Drug Addict", could this be what Al is referring to since there is a lot of drug use on the show?

"Don't give those hoople heads any more drinks."

hoople head by Lanette May 5, 2008