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

  • Hood (Marvel 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
  • 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
  • Hood, slang term specifically for Black American ghettos

People

  • Hood (surname), a list of people
  • Robin Hood, medieval English folk hero
  • hood, a slang shortening of hoodlum

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)
  • 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

  • Da Hood (disambiguation)
  • Hoodwink (disambiguation)
  • Hoodlum (disambiguation)
  • Robin Hood (disambiguation)