Here is a joke that an old-timer told me about the origin of the word "hoopie". A hoopie is a friendly term referring to a less than sophisticated country bumpkin, or a greasy redneck, or a dirty looking hillbilly, you get the picture. Here is how the term originated: a group of Italian men were standing outside a steel mill in Pittsburgh talking and waiting to go into work. A West Virginian worker walked past them, and the one Italian looked to the other and said: "Who pee?"😉