hopping
See also: Hopping
English
Pronunciation
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ
Etymology 1
Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon
Noun
hopping (countable and uncountable, plural hoppings)
- (Britain) 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
Verb
hopping
- present participle of hop
Noun
hopping (countable and uncountable, plural hoppings)
- The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
- (countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.
Adjective
hopping (comparative more hopping, superlative most hopping)
- (US, slang) Of a location, crowded with people.
Derived terms
- b-hopping
- cafe-hopping
- channel-hopping
- club-hopping
- Darling Downs hopping mouse
- dry hopping
- flag-hopping
- freight hopping
- hopping Dick
- hopping mad
- hopping vampire
- job-hopping
- lead hopping
- lindy hopping
- lindy-hopping
- Mitchell's hopping mouse
- quota-hopping
- scaffold hopping
- spy hopping
- spy-hopping
- swan hopping
- time-hopping
- train hopping