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Something that only you guys and myself could possibly care about (and even that is debateable...)

The question is this: is the word "hoopy" an adjective or a noun? One would think it's an adjective (and in the instances where it is used, it appears to be one), but its definition (hoopy= really together guy) suggests otherwise.

So... adjective? Noun? Both? 42? You think too much about these things, Wingnut? Tell me what you think!

I'd say both, but I think it's by far used more as an adjective, as in the phrase "hoopy food". It just seems odd to me to say "He's a hoopy." It'd make more sense to say "He is hoopy."

Actually, "hoopy" is an adjective. It's "frood/y" that can be either. As in "hoopy frood", or, from The Restaurant at the End of the Universe (I think it's Zaphod drunkening on...) "cool and froody". As far as I know, hoopy has never been used as a noun, and probably shouldn't be.

{she knows too much. she must be eliminated.}

And I, too, enjoy the sig of the uncertain icthus *shiftyshifty*

Ooh, my head's spinning eek
Um... I think it's an adjective

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I'm gonna have to go with 42.

Here's another thing that has nothing to do with anything...

Hooping (verb): The act of hula-hooping with a handmade hula hoop at a String Cheese Incident concert.

Which lends itself to such great phrases as, "Hey, look at that hoopy frood hooping!" Or, if we decide it's a noun, "Hey, look at that hoopy hooping!"

Aargh, far too many double 'o's in this post.

The gag it orignates from defines it as a noun.
But it's later use by the fan base and characters with in the Trilogy have made into an adjetive (on numerous occasions people relate to something as "hoopy").
As a side note, in Latin the phrase would be Hoopus Froodus.