Talk:hoodie

who wears them?

Who wears them is completely irrelivant in a dictionary definition.

Where I'm from, you will find both males & females wearing these, not mostly males.

Origin of the term

When I was growing up in the 1980's, I never heard the term "hoodie" (the things that now have that name were called "hooded sweatshirts"). While the nickname is a fairly obvious one, it seems to me that there must have been some event, perhaps a popular movie movie or song, or an interview with a celebrity, that included the term which made it suddenly ubiquitous. Does anybody know when and where this happened?

The earliest mention I can find on-line is from someone's college project on slang from 1998, but I don't think the term got common until some time later. --Psiphiorg 00:51, 11 December 2006 (UTC)

I recall it being called that in the early 90s and I think the late 80s. Searching the term returns an astonishing number of archaic texts that used the meaning "hoodlum" from the 18th and 19th century. Wikipedia's earliest related reference is only w:Boyz-N-The-Hood (song), from 1988. --Connel MacKenzie 09:05, 11 December 2006 (UTC)