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hopping en · NOUN · etymology 1
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Etymology
Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon
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(UK, countable, uncountable) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).
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(countable, uncountable) The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
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hopping en · ADJ · etymology 2
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That uses hopping for locomotion.
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(US, slang) Of a location, crowded with people.
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Deriveds
time-hopping · hopping mouse · Mitchell's hopping mouse · club-hopping · job-hopping · freight hopping · bunnyhopping · hopping Dick · hoppingly · spy-hopping · hopping vampire · train hopping · quota-hopping · lead hopping · flag-hopping · groundhopping · channel-hopping · lindy hopping · distro-hopping · Darling Downs hopping mouse · b-hopping · cafe-hopping · dry hopping · hopping mad · freighthopping · spy hopping · bottom hopping · swan hopping · lindy-hopping · scaffold hopping
hopping en · NOUN · etymology 2
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(countable, uncountable) The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
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(countable) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.
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hopping en · VERB · etymology 2
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(form-of, gerund, participle, present) present participle and gerund of hop