hedgehop
Americanverb (used without object)
verb
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Origin of hedgehop
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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.
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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.
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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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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.
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And as he whistle-stopped through Michigan and Ohio, hedgehopped into Kentucky and then flew in to Cincinnati, he worked these themes hard.
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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.
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Signal Corpsmen slung rolls of wire beside the wings, hedgehopped over the hills laying communications at 70 m.p.h.
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A licensed pilot, Teddy hedgehopped into remote areas, helped swing Arizona and crack Johnson's solid front in New Mexico.
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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.
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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.
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The thin-skinned grasshoppers carry no machine guns; in the air they would be easy meat if surprised by a hedgehopping enemy fighter.
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General Ouane jumped into a light Beaver reconnaissance plane and circled the area, hedgehopping as low as the pilot dared.
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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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