hopping
hopping noun: hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent. Also the present participle and gerund of hop.
Noun (1)
hopping (countable and uncountable, plural hoppings)
Noun (2)
hopping (countable and uncountable, plural hoppings)
- The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
- A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.
Adjective
hopping (comparative more hopping, superlative most hopping)
- That uses hopping for locomotion.
- Of a location, crowded with people.
Proper noun capitalized: Hopping
Hopping (plural Hoppings)
- A surname.
Also used as
hopping is also the present participle and gerund of hop.
hopping meaning in Telugu, Malayalam, Kannada and Punjabi
hopping in Telugu
- హోప్ చేయడం, హోపింగ్
hopping in Malayalam
- ഹോപ്പിംഗ്
hopping in Kannada
- ಹೋಪ್ ಮಾಡುವುದು
hopping in Punjabi
- ਹਾਪਿੰਗ, ਹੌਪਿੰਗ
More languagesFewer languages
- hopping in Gujarati
- હોપીંગ
- hopping in Odia
- ହାପିଙ୍ଗ, ହାପିଙ୍ଗ୍, ହପିଙ୍ଗ
- hopping in Nepali
- हपिङ, हापिङ, हपिंङ
Examples of hopping in a sentence
- It would be rather peculiar to see a kangaroo hopping down a city street.
- The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.
- He was hopping mad when he came home and discovered that she had bought a new car without consulting him.
Forms of hopping
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | hoppings |
| Adjective | |
| comparative | more hopping |
| superlative | most hopping |
| Proper noun | |
| plural | Hoppings |
Origin of hopping
Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon
Words formed from hopping
- b-hopping
- bottom hopping
- bunnyhopping
- cafe-hopping
- channel-hopping
- club-hopping
- Darling Downs hopping mouse
- distro-hopping
- dry hopping
- flag-hopping
- freight hopping
- freighthopping
- groundhopping
- hopping Dick
- hoppingly
- hopping mad
- hopping mouse
- hopping vampire
- job-hopping
- lead hopping
- lindy-hopping
- lindy hopping
- Mitchell's hopping mouse
- quota-hopping
- scaffold hopping
- spy-hopping
- spy hopping
- swan hopping
- time-hopping
- train hopping
Phrases with hopping
Words that rhyme with hopping
- topping
- shopping
- stopping
- cropping
- dropping
- chopping
- clopping
- lopping
- mopping
- popping
- bopping
- sopping
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Questions about hopping
- What does hopping mean?
- Hopping means hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
- What is hopping in Telugu?
- Hopping in Telugu is హోప్ చేయడం, హోపింగ్. See Hopping meaning in Telugu.
- What part of speech is hopping?
- Hopping can be a noun, an adjective or a proper noun.
- What is the plural of hopping?
- The plural of hopping is hoppings.
Words near hopping in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: hopping (page history and authors); Hopping (page history and authors); hopping (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hopping (Malayalam, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hopping (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hopping (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hopping (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hopping (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); hopping (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). 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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