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.
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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 Lang, Andrew
Under a rainy sky our plane hedgehopped over the broad, quiet Korean countryside.
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
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
Propelled by winds that gusted up to 100 m.p.h., the flames hedgehopped spiny ridges, leaped from tree to tree, jumped across streets from rooftop to rooftop.
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
General Ouane jumped into a light Beaver reconnaissance plane and circled the area, hedgehopping as low as the pilot dared.
From Time Magazine Archive
The thin-skinned grasshoppers carry no machine guns; in the air they would be easy meat if surprised by a hedgehopping enemy fighter.
From Time Magazine Archive
This meant that despite a phenomenal 90% passenger load, record air express cargoes, and higher gross incomes, the industry was barely hedgehopping over the financial woods.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was mean flying across Poland and into Russia, 1,000 mi. of "hedgehopping" under a creeping low ceiling of fog and rain.
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 Sheckley, Robert
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