hopping

[ hop-ing ]

adjective

1. working energetically; busily engaged:

   He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.

2. going from one place or situation to another of a similar specified type (usually used in combination):

   restaurant-hopping.

hopping

/ ˈhɒpɪŋ /

noun

1. the action of a person or animal that hops
2. dialect.
   a fair, esp ( the Hoppings ) an annual fair in Newcastle

adjective

1. hopping mad
   hopping mad in a terrible rage

Word History and Origins

Origin of hopping¹

First recorded in 1665–75; hop ¹ + -ing ²

Idioms and Phrases

Idioms

1. hopping mad, furious; enraged:

   He was hopping mad when his daughter dropped out of college.

Example Sentences

The rich and well-connected from California and New York hopping on private planes to Florida for their shots.

From Vox

If this dark outlook persists, expect to see more Americans putting off big purchases, passing on job-hopping opportunities, and even avoiding that new business venture they’d been considering.

From Fortune

The xEMU is supposed to encourage normal walking as opposed to hopping, and make it easier to kneel down stably in one motion to work close to the ground—which wasn’t much of an option for Apollo astronauts.

From MIT Technology Review

My boots crunched along as I climbed past thundering Alberta Falls, rock-hopping to avoid late-season mashed potato snow.

From Outside Online

To avoid all this hopping and rotating, when we hit an edge of the net we could instead glue on a new, rotated copy of the net and continue straight into it.

From Quanta Magazine

What happens when the young, rich characters bring their hard-partying, bed-hopping antics stateside?

From The Daily Beast

Paris Hilton was just another party-hopping socialite until her then-boyfriend, Rick Salomon, released their sex tape.

From The Daily Beast

Rep. Mark Sanford, the Appalachian trail-hopping ex-governor who now represents the city in Congress, spent the day in Washington.

From The Daily Beast

Game of Thrones has its ever-sprawling cast and its continent-hopping locations.

From The Daily Beast

It is made, as the label narrates “with traditional mash hopping and without wort boiling.”

From The Daily Beast

“In just a minute,” replied the clerk, hopping around the other table to have Belle Ringold and her friends repeat their orders.

From Project Gutenberg

The exploring party started slowly down the rusty track, with the dog hopping happily on three legs.

From Project Gutenberg

And there, hopping about on a spray of beautiful apple blossoms, was another bird.

From Project Gutenberg

As the door opened in the side, I lay the rifle down, stood with crossed arms as the thin, hopping horrors came near.

From Project Gutenberg

The tall, graceful Schree warriors followed us into the cavern, and last of all came the two hopping Jivros.

From Project Gutenberg

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