Hood

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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
• Hoodie, hooded sweatshirt

Anatomy

• Hood, a flap of skin behind the head of a cobra
• Clitoral hood, a hood of skin surrounding the clitoris

Other coverings

• Hood (soft top), retractable soft roof of a convertible vehicle
• Hood (vehicle), covering over the engine compartment in a motor vehicle ('bonnet' in most Commonwealth countries)
• 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

Art, entertainment and media

Fictitious entities

• Hood (comics), fictional Marvel Comics character
• Hood (Malazan), fictional god in the Malazan Book of the Fallen universe
• Hood (Thunderbirds), fictional character in the Thunderbirds TV series
• "The Hood", the vigilante name given to Oliver Queen in season 1 of the TV series Arrow
• USS Hood (NCC-1703), a Constitution-class starship in the Star Trek franchise
• USS Hood (NCC-42296, originally NCC-2541), an Excelsior-class starship in the Star Trek franchise

Films

• 'Hood (film), a 1998 Japanese film
• Hoods (film), 1998 independent film directed by Mark Malone

Literature

• Hood (novel), a 1995 novel by Emma Donoghue
• Hood (2006), the first book of the King Raven Trilogy, by Stephen R. Lawhead

Music

• Hood (band), British band
• Hoods (band), American band

Enterprises and institutions

• Hood College, a liberal arts college in Frederick, Maryland
• HP Hood, American food manufacture

People

Places

• Hood, Iran
• Hood, California, US
• Hood, Virginia, US
• Fort Hood, a U.S. Army post near Killeen, Texas
• Hood Canal, a fjord off Puget Sound in Washington State, US
• Hood County, Texas, US
• Hood River (disambiguation)
• Mount Hood, the tallest mountain in Oregon, US
  • 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

Ships

• List of ships called HMS Hood
• Hood Steamer, early (1900-1) American manufacturer of steam cars in Lanark, Illinois, see List of defunct automobile manufacturers of the United States

Other uses

• HOOD method, software design method
• Hood, codename for the largest secretly detonated thermonuclear device over United States territory. See Operation Plumbbob

See also

• All pages beginning with "Hood"
• All pages with a title containing Hood
• Hoodwink (disambiguation)
• Hoodlum (disambiguation)
• 'hood (disambiguation)