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hedgehop

American  
[hej-hop] / ˈhɛdʒˌhɒp /

verb (used without object)

hedgehopped, hedgehopping
  1. to fly an airplane at a very low altitude, as for spraying crops or for low-level bombing in warfare.


hedgehop British  
/ ˈhɛdʒˌhɒp /

verb

  1. (intr) (of an aircraft) to fly close to the ground, as in crop spraying

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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Etymology

Origin of hedgehop

First recorded in 1910–15; hedge + hop 1


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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

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

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

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

Under a rainy sky our plane hedgehopped over the broad, quiet Korean countryside.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

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

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

A carefully coached armada of more than 100 Lightnings raced across the Mediterranean and the Italian boot, roared across the dusty plain around Foggia, at hedgehopping altitude, caught the Germans by surprise.

From Time Magazine Archive

Rhee, too. had come to Suwon by air; his light observation plane had eluded a North Korean fighter only by hedgehopping.

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

Gentlemen of the Jockey Club supervised flat racing, but any toffer could ride a nag in a hedgehopping race.

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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