hedgehop
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Origin of hedgehop
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There are Anglo-American kites, like reproductions of clipper ships and World War I Sopwiths and Fokkers, and the two-string Peter Powell, that can loop the loop, hedgehop, do dipsy doodles, roller coasters and figure eights.
From Time Magazine Archive
Joe Walker was barely off the ground when Zeros attacked, forced him to hedgehop across tea plantations to escape into the mountains.
From Time Magazine Archive
Popescu's two-hour, 300-mile hedgehop from the Rumanian town of Arad to Feldbach, an Austrian village ten miles inside the Austro-Hungarian frontier, in a single-engine Antonov2 biplane was almost flight-plan perfect.
From Time Magazine Archive
The hedgehop said no more, and pretended to be satisfied; but when some days had gone by he woke the jackal, who was sleeping soundly after a hunt which had lasted several hours.
From The Orange Fairy Book by Andrew Lang
To avoid Communist radar detection, he hedgehopped over the ground, never flew higher than 150 ft. throughout the entire 150-mile trip.
From Time Magazine Archive
Signal Corpsmen slung rolls of wire beside the wings, hedgehopped over the hills laying communications at 70 m.p.h.
From Time Magazine Archive
And as he whistle-stopped through Michigan and Ohio, hedgehopped into Kentucky and then flew in to Cincinnati, he worked these themes hard.
From Time Magazine Archive
At first, they hedgehopped for short distances along the hillsides, depending on air currents deflected upward by the slopes to keep them aloft.
From Time Magazine Archive
A licensed pilot, Teddy hedgehopped into remote areas, helped swing Arizona and crack Johnson's solid front in New Mexico.
From Time Magazine Archive
A mediocre low-altitude pursuit ship can give short shrift to a crack medium fighter caught hedgehopping.
From Time Magazine Archive
In ten years of bush flying, he has become an old hand at perilous uphill landings and downhill takeoffs, slalom-like runs to avoid wild pigs on the runways, hedgehopping to stay under hanging clouds.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gentlemen of the Jockey Club supervised flat racing, but any toffer could ride a nag in a hedgehopping race.
From Time Magazine Archive
The most eye-catching changes in the cars are second-story "astra domes" in which travelers can dine and get a hedgehopping bird's-eye view of the scenery.
From Time Magazine Archive
An observer would have seen it circle the bush, diving, hedgehopping, even looping, as if practicing all maneuvers possible to Sparrows.
From Keep Your Shape by Robert Sheckley
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