hopping

[ hop-ing ]
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adjective
  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.

Idioms about hopping

  1. hopping mad, furious; enraged: He was hopping mad when his daughter dropped out of college.

Origin of hopping

1
First recorded in 1665–75; hop1 + -ing2

Words Nearby hopping

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How to use hopping in a sentence

  • “In just a minute,” replied the clerk, hopping around the other table to have Belle Ringold and her friends repeat their orders.

  • The exploring party started slowly down the rusty track, with the dog hopping happily on three legs.

    The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler Warner
  • And there, hopping about on a spray of beautiful apple blossoms, was another bird.

    Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon Anderson
  • As the door opened in the side, I lay the rifle down, stood with crossed arms as the thin, hopping horrors came near.

    Valley of the Croen | Lee Tarbell
  • The tall, graceful Schree warriors followed us into the cavern, and last of all came the two hopping Jivros.

    Valley of the Croen | Lee Tarbell

British Dictionary definitions for hopping

hopping

/ (ˈhɒpɪŋ) /


noun
  1. the action of a person or animal that hops

  2. Tyneside dialect a fair, esp (the Hoppings) an annual fair in Newcastle

adjective
  1. hopping mad in a terrible rage

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