hood

Universal Words noun 1 a part of a coat, etc. that you can pull up to cover the back and top of your head: a jacket with a detachable hood 2 a piece of fabric put over sb's face and head so that they cannot be recognized or so that they cannot see 3 a piece of coloured silk or fur worn over an academic GOWN to show the kind of degree held by the person wearing it 4 (especially BrE) a folding cover over a car, etc: We drove all the way with the hood down. 5 (AmE) = BONNET(2) 6 a cover placed over a device or machine, for example, to protect it: a lens hood * an extractor hood (= one that removes cooking smells from a kitchen) 7 (slang, especially AmE) = HOODLUM(1)