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, a flap of skin behind the head of a cobra
• Clitoral hood, a hood 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 ('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

Entertainment

• Hood (band), British band
• Hood (novel), a 1995 novel by Emma Donoghue
• Hood, the first book of the King Raven Trilogy, a 2006 novel by Stephen R. Lawhead
• 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
• Hoods (film), 1998 independent film directed by Mark Malone
• 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
• 'Hood (film), a 1998 Japanese film
• Hoods (band), American band

People

For people with the surname "Hood", see Hood (surname).

Places

• Hood, Iran
• Hood, California
• Hood, Virginia
• Fort Hood, a U.S. 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)

Other

• List of ships called HMS Hood
• HP Hood, American food manufacturer (especially focusing on dairy products)
• Hood Steamer, early (1900-1) American manufacturer of steam cars in Lanark, Illinois, see List of defunct automobile manufacturers of the United States
• HOOD method, software design method
• Hood, codename for the largest secretly detonated thermonuclear device over United States territory. See Operation Plumbbob.
• 'hood, slang for neighbourhood or ghetto
• Hood, short for hoodlum, a thug or criminally-inclined person

See also

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