hopping

Pluralhoppings

1. 1
   verb

   Present participle and gerund of hop. Use it after is, are, or was, or to name the action.

   The rabbit was hopping across the yard.

   My little sister kept hopping on one foot all the way home.

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2. 2
   adjectiveslangUS

   Used about a place that is full of people.

   The beach was hopping by noon on Saturday.

   That new taco place is always hopping on Friday nights.

   Similarbusy, packed, buzzing, lively, jumping

   Oppositeempty, quiet, dead

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3. 3
   nouncountable or uncountable

   The act of moving in small jumps, or of jumping and dancing about in a lively way.

   The hopping of the frogs kept us awake all night.

   All that hopping around the room made the floor shake.

   Similarjumping, skipping, bouncing

4. 4
   adjective

   Moving around by making small jumps.

   A frog is a hopping animal, but a snake is not.

   The kids made a little hopping toy out of a spring and some paper.

   Similarjumping

5. 5
   nouncountable or uncountable

   Putting hops into beer while it is being made, to give it flavor.

   The brewer changed the hopping to make the beer less bitter.

   Too much hopping can make a beer taste very bitter.

6. 6
   nounBritishcountable or uncountable

   Picking hops, which for people from London is a holiday spent working on hop farms in Kent.

   Every summer the whole family went hopping down in Kent.

   Gran still talks about the hopping as the best holiday of her childhood.

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7. 7
   nouncountable

   The move of an electron in an atom from one energy level to another.

   The hopping of an electron to a lower level gives off a tiny flash of light.

   The students used a model to show the hopping between two energy levels.

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