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Definitions for Hopping

[1] working energetically; busily engaged: He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.
[2] going from one place or situation to another of a similar specified type (usually used in combination): restaurant-hopping.
[3] hopping mad , furious; enraged: He was hopping mad when his daughter dropped out of college.
[4] to make a short, bouncing leap; move by leaping with all feet off the ground.
[5] to spring or leap on one foot.
[6] Informal . to make a short, quick trip, especially in an airplane: He hopped up to Boston for the day.
[7] Informal . to travel or move frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): to island-hop; to job-hop.
[8] Informal . to dance.
[9] to jump over; clear with a hop: The sheep hopped the fence.
[10] Informal . to board or get onto a vehicle: to hop a plane.
[11] Informal . to cross in an airplane: We hopped the Atlantic in five hours.
[12] an act of hopping; short leap.
[13] a leap on one foot.
[14] a journey, especially a short trip by air.
[15] Informal . a dance or dancing party.
[16] a bounce or rebound of a moving object, as a ball: She caught the ball on the first hop.
[17] any twining plant of the genus Humulus, bearing male flowers in loose clusters and female flowers in conelike forms.
[18] hops, the dried ripe cones of the female flowers of this plant, used in brewing, medicine, etc.
[19] Older Slang . a narcotic drug, especially opium.
[20] to treat or flavor with hops.
[21] hop up , Slang . to excite; make enthusiastic: They hopped the crowd up with fiery speeches. to add to the power of: The kids hopped up the motor of their jalopy. to stimulate by narcotics.
[22] the action of a person or animal that hops
[23] Tyneside dialect a fair, esp (the Hoppings ) an annual fair in Newcastle
[24] hopping mad in a terrible rage
[25] (intr) to make a jump forwards or upwards, esp on one foot
[26] (intr) (esp of frogs, birds, rabbits, etc) to move forwards in short jumps
[27] (tr) to jump over he hopped the hedge
[28] (intr) informal to move or proceed quickly (in, on, out of, etc) hop on a bus
[29] (tr) informal to cross (an ocean) in an aircraft they hopped the Atlantic in seven hours
[30] (tr) US and Canadian informal to travel by means of (an aircraft, bus, etc) he hopped a train to Chicago
[31] US and Canadian to bounce or cause to bounce he hopped the flat stone over the lake's surface
[32] (intr) US and Canadian informal to begin intense activity, esp work
[33] (intr) another word for limp 1
[34] hop it or hop off British slang to go away
[35] the act or an instance of hopping
[36] old-fashioned , informal a dance, esp one at which popular music is played we're all going to the school hop tonight
[37] informal a trip, esp in an aircraft
[38] US a bounce, as of a ball
[39] on the hop informal active or busy British unawares or unprepared the new ruling caught me on the hop
[40] any climbing plant of the N temperate genus Humulus, esp H. lupulus, which has green conelike female flowers and clusters of small male flowers: family Cannabiaceae (or Cannabidaceae ) See also hops
[41] hop garden a field of hops
[42] obsolete , slang opium or any other narcotic drug

Words related to Hopping

caper, dance, skip, bound, bounce, skitter, leap, hurdle, spring, step, vault, lop, trip, lope

Words nearby Hopping

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Origin of Hopping

21400–50; late Middle English hoppe < Middle Dutch hoppe (Dutch hop ); cognate with Old High German hopfo (German Hopfen )

Words that may be confused with Hopping

WORDS, THAT, MAY, BE, CONFUSED, WITH, hophop, jump, skip, (see, synonym, study, at, jump), (see, synonym, study, at, skip1)

Other words from Hopping

hop·ping·ly , adverb

Word origin for Hopping

C15: from Middle Dutch hoppe; related to Old High German hopfo, Norwegian hupp tassel

Synonyms for Hopping

bounce, bound, caper, dance, hurdle, leap, lop, lope, skip, skitter, spring, step, trip, vault