comes from the book, "Mott The Hoople" in which the character is a lazy, preferring to work as little as possible, earning money on the side by running every scam going. He's also a gambler and not a very good one at that.
n. a variant of wigger, the difference being the person in question doesn't "intend" to act and dress the Hip Hop Culture, but poverty, and social statuswield how he/she presents himself/herself.
Jerry was raised in the South Bronx to a white crack addict prostitute. He can be a such a hoople sometimes, he just doesn't know any better.
A useless or self-serving organization. A wasteful business run by incompetents. A public sector organization with no useful purpose other than to generate paperwork, internal reports and provide incomes for its executives. A quango.
