hopping

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noun 4adj 2name 1

Collocations

ADJ.

furry, great, involved, mad, mossy, over, routine, unusual

VERB + HOPPING

bar, come, found, going, one-legged, went

HOPPING + NOUN

boston, kent, lawn, piece, tokyo

PREP.

about, across, around, down, from, in, on, up

ADV.

then

Definitions

noun

hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.

Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).

The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

noun

The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.

A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

adj

That uses hopping for locomotion.

Of a location, crowded with people.

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Idioms & Phrases

hopping mad

Extremely angry; furious to the point of outburst.

He was hopping mad when he came home and discovered that she had bought a new car without consulting him.

Example Bank

Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).

Wiktionary

We're doing the same old routine: going bar hopping and then to karaoke.

Tatoeba · #19400

Mr Nakamura went bar hopping in Tokyo.

Tatoeba · #277534

Job hopping was not so common in Japan as in America.

Tatoeba · #281202

Mr. Nakamura went bar hopping in Tokyo.

Tatoeba · #1462654

A kangaroo surprised security officers at Melbourne Airport when it was found hopping around one of the car parks!

Tatoeba · #2128958

Usage Notes

i Register

In some senses, hopping is marked as slang, British, US. Watch for register when choosing this word.

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