Green’s Dictionary of Slang

hoop v.¹

to beat.

1731		C. Coffey Devil to Pay I i: Why, you most pestilent Baggage, will you be hoop’d?
1811		Lex. Balatronicum.
1823		Egan Grose’s Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue.
1876		C. Hindley Life and Adventures of a Cheap Jack 72: Harry kept a public-house at Plymouth, and when in a drinking mood would sit by the beer engine and keep pulling and drinking until he required hooping.
1908		L.W. Payne Jr ‘Word-List From East Alabama’ in DN III:iv 321: hoop, v. and n. Whip.

In phrases

hoop someone’s barrel (v.)

to beat.

1731		C. Coffey Devil to Pay I i: Let him cut her short Of her Meat and her Sport, And ten times a Day hoop her Barrel, brave Boys.
1772		Bridges Burlesque Homer (3rd edn) 44: If you should make a downright quarrel, / Depend upon’t he’ll hoop your barrel.
1785, 1788, 1796		Grose Classical Dict. of the Vulgar Tongue n.p.: Hoop, to hoop, to beat; I’ll well hoop his barrel.