(noun) Someone who portrays inherent characteristics which exemplify his/her upbringing in a dangerous, and often gang/drug infested neighborhood. Someone who is hood is unlikely to be controlled in hostile situations, and may often act in ways which make the appear as uncivilized to people who aren't hood. Often can be synonymous with the word ghetto
Damn, you cant invite T-O to this dinner, he's too hood. He'll probably eat with his hands, curse anyone out who stares at him for that, and be totally uncontrollable.
1. A slang word deriving from the word "Neighborhood". The word is mostly used when referring to an American Ghetto, The Slums or a run down environment. Most Hood like environments usually have (but not limited to) urban Thugs & Gangsters.
(Refer to... Newark, NJ / Brooklyn, NY / Compton, CA /
Vinny- Ayo Jay, I'm picking up Amanda this weekend. She told me she lives near South Side (Chicago). You ever been homie?
Jamal- Yeah son, I'm up there all the time.. the place is mad hood though.
Vinny- Oh word?
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LeBron- Yo dawg, I heard there be a new kid... that for real?
Teddy- Oh yeah, Mikey or whatever his name is? Yeah yeah, people be telling me he hood as fuck! Comes from Camden I think?
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(Note: Ignoring the stereotypical thought that someone has to be African American or Hispanic/Latino to be "hood"... the person(s) can also be Caucasian. As long as he/her resides in a Ghetto like environment... and/or socialises with "hood" like individuals. Which is why sometimes you may find the occasional wigger talking in Ghetto tongue.)
1. Post-rock/Indie band from the UK named after the HMS Hood
2. Famous British battleship (HMS Hood) that was sunk in WW2 by the rival German Battleship Bismarck. Some actually claim the Prinz Eugen fired the fatal shot. No one really knows for sure.
The Brits got their revenge a couple days later when an entire fleet of the country's best ships surrounded the Bismarck and decimated it. The Germans claimed that the Brits were never actually able to sink it and that they scuttled it themselves.