Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (US orig. California) a car, esp. the latest model.

1939		D.V. Babcock ‘Murder on the Gayway’ in Black Mask Stories (2010) 569/1: he’s down there in that bail-bond office. That’s his hoopie out in front of it.
1968		‘Sl. of Watts’ in Current Sl. III:2 30: Hoopty, whoopty, n. A car [...] hoopy, whoopy, a car.
1971		E.E. Landy Underground Dict. (1972) 105: hoopdee. n. (B.) Latest-model car.
1972		E. Folb Urban Black Argot 141: Hoopdie / Hoopie a car.
1985		‘Jennifer Blowdryer’ Modern English 64: hoopry (n): A car.
1985		T.R. Houser Central Sl. 58: whoop de A car.
1993		Eble Campus Sl. Apr. 3: hoopty – a big car.
1993		K. Scott Monster (1994) 258: Get yo’ black ass out the hoop. Park that piece of shit.
2000		Ebonics Primer at www.dolemite.com 🌐 hoopty Definition: a big ass car. i.e. Electra 225 (deuce and a quarter) or 1970’s Chevy Impala. Example: 20 of my bruthas went pimpin’ in my hoopty.
2007		N. McCall Them (2008) 109: Cadillacs and hoopties parked back-to-back.
2014		S.A. Cosby ‘The Rat & the Cobra’ in ThugLit Mar. [ebook] He started his hoopty and drove out of our driveway.
2015		P. Beatty Sellout (2016) 38: Bumrush’d at caps and hollow point shell / While hooptie and hoodlum fell.
2021		Central Cee ‘The Bag’ 🎵 Hooptie full of packs, what’s that? Ah man, I’m hearing the sirens go.

2. (US black) a worn-out, falling-to-pieces automobile.

1989		Sir Mix-A-Lo ‘My Hooptie’ 🎵 My hooptie rollin’, tailpipe draggin’.
1992		D. Burke Street Talk 2 50: That hooptie just crashed into that wall!
1997–2000		College Sl. Research Project (Cal. State Poly. Uni., Pomona) 🌐 Hoopdie (noun) A junk car.
1997–2001		Online Sl. Dict. 🌐 hoopdee n 1. an old, rusty, dented, beaten-up car. (‘I had to ride in my friends hoopdee.’).
2000		G. Pelecanos Shame the Devil 128: Randy wouldn’t be drivin’ no hooptie and shit.
2005		G. Pelecanos Drama City 105: Lee had this hoop, an old Camry.
2008		Simon & Burns ‘Get Some’ Generation Kill ep. 1 [TV script] Here we are invading a country with ghetto hoopdies.
2011		Immortal Technique ‘Sign of The Times’ 🎵 Imagine a saviour born in a Mexican hooptie.
2014		Grizzle ‘Mandem Salute’ 🎵 If we need to re-up then we skr through lanes in that hoopty.
2021		T. Pluck Boy from County Hell 124: [O]ne of those old hoopties.