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bed-hopping

bed-hopping is the present participle and gerund of bed-hop.

Meaning of bed-hop

Verb

bed-hop (third-person singular simple present bed-hops, present participle bed-hopping, simple past and past participle bed-hopped)

  1. (informal, intransitive) To be promiscuous; to have multiple sexual partners.
    • During his university days he would bed-hop whenever he got the chance.

Questions about bed-hopping

What is bed-hopping the present participle and gerund of?
Bed-hopping is the present participle and gerund of bed-hop.

Words near bed-hopping in the dictionary

  1. bed-headed
  2. bed-hop
  3. bed-hopped
  4. bed-hopper
  5. bed-hoppers
  6. bed-hopping
  7. bed-hops
  8. bed-in
  9. bed-ins
  10. bed-jacket
  11. bed-jacketed

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Adapted from Wiktionary: bed-hopping (page history and authors); bed-hop (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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