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hopping up

hopping up is the present participle and gerund of hop up.

Meaning of hop up

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To excite (people).
  2. (intransitive) To get in a high vehicle.
  3. (intransitive) To stand up quickly.
  4. (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.); to soup up.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hop, up.
    • Don't let the cat hop up onto the kitchen counter!

Questions about hopping up

What is hopping up the present participle and gerund of?
Hopping up is the present participle and gerund of hop up.

Words near hopping up in the dictionary

  1. hopping on
  2. hopping on down to
  3. hopping the twig
  4. hopping the wag
  5. hopping to it
  6. hopping up
  7. hopping vampire
  8. hopping vampires
  9. hoppingly
  10. hoppings
  11. Hoppins

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