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channel hop

channel hop verb: to quickly scan the channels on a television using a remote control.

Verb

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

  1. (informal, intransitive) To quickly scan the channels on a television using a remote control.
    • I channel hopped for half an hour before deciding nothing worth watching was on television.
    Synonyms:
    channel surf, zap

Synonyms of channel hop

Forms of channel hop

third-person singular presentchannel hops
present participlechannel hopping
past participlechannel hopped
pastchannel hopped

Questions about channel hop

What does channel hop mean?
Channel hop means to quickly scan the channels on a television using a remote control.
What part of speech is channel hop?
Channel hop is a verb.
What is the past tense of channel hop?
The past tense of channel hop is channel hopped.

Words near channel hop in the dictionary

  1. channel drift
  2. channel fever
  3. channel flashing
  4. channel flicker
  5. channel goose
  6. channel hop
  7. channel hopped
  8. channel hopping
  9. channel hops
  10. Channel Island
  11. Channel Island English

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