Hood

Hood may refer to:

Covering

Apparel

• Hood (headgear), type of head covering
  • Article of Academic dress
  • Animal hood, something used in costume play or part of an animal transformation fantasy
  • Bondage hood, sex toy

Anatomy

• Hood (anatomy), flap of skin behind the head of a cobra
• Clitoral hood, outer layer of skin surrounding the clitoris

Other

• Hood (soft top), retractable soft roof of a convertible vehicle
• Hood (vehicle), covering over the engine compartment in a motor vehicle (aka 'bonnet' in UK)
• Fume hood, piece of laboratory safety equipment
• Lens hood, device used to block light from creating glare in photographs
• Range hood, exhaust system for a stove or cooktop

Entertainment

• Hood (band), British band
• Hoods (band), American band
• Hood (novel), 1995 novel by Emma Donoghue
• The Hood (Thunderbirds), fictional character in the Thunderbirds TV series
• Hood (comics), fictional Marvel Comics character
• Hood (Malazan), fictional god in the Malazan Book of the Fallen universe

People

Places

United States

• Fort Hood, a US Army post near Killeen, Texas
• Hood College, a liberal arts college in Frederick, Maryland
• Mount Hood is the tallest mountain in Oregon
  • Mount Hood, Oregon, an unincorporated community named after the mountain
  • Mount Hood Parkdale, Oregon, the name of the post office that serves Mount Hood, Oregon
• Hood County, Texas
• Hood Canal a fjord off Puget Sound in Washington state
• Hood River (disambiguation)
• A slang for Neighborhood or ghetto

Other

• HMS Hood (disambiguation), ships of the Royal Navy
• Slang for a Hoodlum
• HP Hood, American food manufacturer (especially focusing on dairy products)
• Hood Steamer, early (1900-1) American manufacturer of steam cars in Lanark, Illinois
• HOOD method, software design method
• Hood, codename for the largest secretly detonated thermonuclear device over United States territory. See Operation Plumbbob.

• Slang for Ghetto neighborhood, or people from such a neighborhood

See also

• All pages beginning with "Hood"
• All pages with titles containing "Hood"
• Hoodwink (disambiguation)