The hood is a working class area.

It can be an urban ghetto or a suburb. It depends on which country we're dealing with.
In the USA it is primary the urban ghettos that are called "the hood", but in other countries (in Europe for instance) the suburbs is actually the place, where most people from the lower social classes live. The suburbs will be the hood in these areas.

The area does not have to be dominated by apartment buildings to be called "The hood". It is all about the social class of the population.
"Ain't nothing good in the hood
I'd run away from this bitch and never come back if I could"
- 50 Cent (Curtis Jackson)
by MJ-DK February 25, 2008
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A place where NOT just African American folk ususally claim they are from but many races. They usually aspire to fantacies of escaping from "the hood" but most will remain. However some actually do manage to escape from this 'hood' through their talents and colleges not thru rap only as others would have you believe.

The hood is not just an area of heavy crime, and corrupt police force. Hoods are not usually owned by organized crime organizations known as Street gangs. Which Street gangs do not always deal in the drug trade, prostitution, and theft (people are just biased).

Hoods are something of all races and cultures including hispanics, blacks, even whites, etc, this hood-mentality has been spread through the increasing popularity of Rap and Hip-hop music, "gangster culture", and the underfunding of the police force allowed by the government.
The hood is a bad place(so they say), where you don't want to be, simple as that(so they say/could be the safest place to be at sometimes). Certain people claim to have knowledge and experience about the "hood".
yet!! In my opinion a person who's never been or ever lived in the hood ,will never know what really happens or go's on in the hood which can be found in any state/city/country burbs/suburbs!
Hello and how are you? I am just 1 person who's left the hood but not because of the music industry, but because I wanted out through hard work and determination....
by Original G! Da don still lives February 12, 2016
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The Hood is the part of the city where you grew up.
Ben : Our Hood sure has changed.
Glen : Yea now it's flooded with god damm yuppies. (ie:Wicker Park in Chicago)
Ben : I miss the old Hood.
Glen : It's not even our Hood anymore.
by Ben Hill April 21, 2006
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An area of town where one would typically find a dried up chicken wing bone next to someone's old weave lying near a bus stop.
Tyrone: "Who left this chicken wing bone just lyin here yo?"
Shanequa: "I don't know, but whoever it was is gonna have to get herself some new weave."
Tyrone: "Damn, we must be in the hood."
by RedVelvet1120 February 18, 2016
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Hood is a place you might get yo ass beat robbed shot anything it ain’t no friendly place
Me I grew up in the hood where I saw people get beat up or shot all the time
by 1-800 chokes you August 25, 2018
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Street slang to describe "neighbourhood"

Some-one who always wears hoodies

Belfast slang to describe a street thug
"What hood you from?"

"Yeah I know him he's a hood"

"Up the hoods"
by Harry69 June 29, 2009
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1. that which covers the engine of a car, typically made of metal, and opened via a latch within the automobile; 2. a garment covering the head.

Not to be confused with 'hood (c.v.)
1. To change the oil in his car, he first had to lift the hood. 2. Superman wears a cape that has no hood.
by archimedest July 25, 2006
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