hopping
working energetically; busily engaged: He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.
going from one place or situation to another of a similar specified type (usually used in combination): restaurant-hopping.
Idioms about hopping
hopping mad, furious; enraged: He was hopping mad when his daughter dropped out of college.
Origin of hopping
1Words Nearby hopping
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How to use hopping in a sentence
What happens when the young, rich characters bring their hard-partying, bed-hopping antics stateside?
Paris Hilton was just another party-hopping socialite until her then-boyfriend, Rick Salomon, released their sex tape.
So You Want to be a Porn Star? Inside the Sex Tape Phenomenon | Aurora Snow | July 19, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTRep. Mark Sanford, the Appalachian trail-hopping ex-governor who now represents the city in Congress, spent the day in Washington.
South Carolina Republicans Snub Desegregation Judge | Michael Tomasky | April 21, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTGame of Thrones has its ever-sprawling cast and its continent-hopping locations.
It is made, as the label narrates “with traditional mash hopping and without wort boiling.”
“In just a minute,” replied the clerk, hopping around the other table to have Belle Ringold and her friends repeat their orders.
The Campfire Girls of Roselawn | Margaret PenroseThe exploring party started slowly down the rusty track, with the dog hopping happily on three legs.
The Box-Car Children | Gertrude Chandler WarnerAnd there, hopping about on a spray of beautiful apple blossoms, was another bird.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonAs 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 TarbellThe 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
/ (ˈhɒpɪŋ) /
the action of a person or animal that hops
Tyneside dialect a fair, esp (the Hoppings) an annual fair in Newcastle
hopping mad in a terrible rage
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