Green’s Dictionary of Slang

1. (Aus./UK Und./US) to run away, to escape.

1839		W.A. Miles Poverty, Mendicity and Crime; Report 116: I have heard them tell little boys, who have [...] ‘hooped it’ from home, that they had better go back whilst they had a home to go to.
1859		Matsell Vocabulum.
c.1863		gloss. in Occurence Book of York River Lockup in Seal (1999) 37: Was a mushroom faker, has been on the steel for snamming a wedge sneezer so I must hoop it.
1871		L.H. Bagg Four Years at Yale 45: Hoop it up, to hurry. Perhaps derived from the driver’s ejaculation, houp la!

2. see hoop v.³