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Source language: EnglishDictionary language: English

hopping

Pronunciation:

noun

Definitions

  1. Hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.

    Example: Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).

  2. The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

hopping

Pronunciation:

verb

Definitions

  1. To jump a short distance.

    Synonyms:jumpleap
  2. To jump on one foot.

  3. To be in state of energetic activity.

    Example: Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.

  4. To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.

    Example: He hopped a train to California.

verb

Definitions

  1. To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer

  2. To gather hops.

noun

Definitions

  1. The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.

  2. A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

adjective

Definitions

  1. Of a location, crowded with people.