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crowhop

crowhop noun: a jumping manoeuvre performed by a horse in which it rounds the back upwards and makes a series of small hops with all four legs leaving the ground simultaneously.

Noun

crowhop (plural crowhops)

  1. A jumping manoeuvre performed by a horse in which it rounds the back upwards and makes a series of small hops with all four legs leaving the ground simultaneously.

Verb

crowhop (third-person singular simple present crowhops, present participle crowhopping, simple past and past participle crowhopped)

  1. To round the back upwards and make a series of small hops with all four legs leaving the ground simultaneously.
    • The great beast went round and round the yard pig-rooting and crow-hopping and I hung on for dear life.1933, Frank Clune, Try Anything Once, Sydney: Angus and Robertson, page 31

Forms of crowhop

Noun
pluralcrowhops
Verb
third-person singular presentcrowhops
present participlecrowhopping
past participlecrowhopped
pastcrowhopped

Origin of crowhop

From crow (“the bird”) + hop (“to jump”).

Questions about crowhop

What does crowhop mean?
Crowhop means a jumping manoeuvre performed by a horse in which it rounds the back upwards and makes a series of small hops with all four legs leaving the ground simultaneously.
What part of speech is crowhop?
Crowhop can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of crowhop?
The plural of crowhop is crowhops.

Words near crowhop in the dictionary

  1. crowfoot cell
  2. crowfoot cells
  3. crowfooted
  4. crowfootgrass
  5. crowfoots
  6. crowhop
  7. crowhopped
  8. crowhopping
  9. crowhops
  10. Crowhurst
  11. crowing

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Adapted from Wiktionary: crowhop (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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