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hopscotch
/ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/
verb 2noun 1
Collocations
4ADJ.
little, over
VERB + HOPSCOTCH
jump, kids, let's, loves, passed, play, played, playing
HOPSCOTCH + NOUN
ball, others, schoolyard, sister
PREP.
in, with
Definitions
noun
1
A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.
No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
verb
1
To move by hopping.
As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy.
2
To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping.
Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling.
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No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
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As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his
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Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling.
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"Let's play hopscotch," said the little white rabbit.
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Let's play hopscotch.
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Everywhere groups of boys were gathered together. Some played at marbles, at hopscotch, at ball. Others rode on bicycles or on wooden horses.
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