Acronym for Highly Opinionated Older
Person. A HOOP needs little provocation to tell you all about their life and the things that bother them about it. No matter what it is, they have a very specific position on it and will expound on this in paragraphs. They will sometimes ask you for advice on
something and then proceed to tell you why your advice is invalid. It often seems as if their
existence is based on a steady flow of complaints.