Hood

Hood may refer to:

Covering

Apparel

• Hood (headgear), type of head covering
  • Article of academic dress
  • Bondage hood, sex toy
• Hoodie, hooded sweatshirt

Anatomy

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

Other coverings

• Fume hood, piece of laboratory safety equipment
• Hood (car), covering over the engine compartment in a motor vehicle ('bonnet' in most Commonwealth countries)
• Kitchen hood, exhaust system for a stove or cooktop
• Lens hood, device used to block light from creating glare in photographs

Rail transport uses

• Hood (rail transport), a rigid cover to protect a load on a flat wagon or a coil car
• Hood unit, a type of diesel or electric locomotive
  • Long hood
  • Short hood

Art, entertainment and media

Fictional entities

• The Hood, 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
• Hood (My Hero Academia), fictional Nomu character in the manga series My Hero Academia
• "The Hood", the vigilante name given to Oliver Queen in season 1 of the TV series Arrow

Films

• Hood, an unrealized film by The Wachowskis

Gaming

• Hood: Outlaws & Legends, a 2021 video game

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 indie rock band
• Hoods (band), American punk band

Enterprises and institutions

• Hood College, a liberal arts college in Frederick, Maryland, United States
• HP Hood, an American food manufacturer

Slang

• Hood, a slang term for neighborhood

People

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

• Robin Hood, medieval English folk hero
• hood, a slang shortening of hoodlum or a thug

Places

Iran

• Hood, Iran, a village in Fars Province of Iran

United States

• Fort Hood (now Fort Cavazos), a U.S. Army post near Killeen, Texas
• Hood, California, a census-designated place in the United States
• Hood Canal, a fjord off Puget Sound in the U.S. state of Washington
• Hood County, Texas, a county in the U.S. state of Texas
• Hood River (disambiguation)
• Hood, Virginia, an unincorporated community in the United States
• Mount Hood, the tallest mountain in the U.S. state of Oregon
  • Mount Hood, Oregon, an unincorporated community named for the mountain
  • Mount Hood Parkdale, Oregon, the name of the post office that serves Mount Hood, Oregon

Transportation

• List of ships called HMS Hood
• Hood Steamer, an early (1900–01) 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
• NASDAQ ticker symbol for Robinhood Markets
• Hood, codename for the largest secretly detonated thermonuclear device over United States territory; see Operation Plumbbob

See also

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