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joyhop

joyhop noun: a flight taken for pleasure.

Noun

joyhop (plural joyhops)

  1. A flight taken for pleasure.
    • He was ready to demonstrate it last month when his test pilot, Marshall S. ("Maury") Boggs, who had made innumerable blind landings, crashed to death in broad daylight on a joyhop in California.1933, Briton Hadden, Time, volume 21, page 29
    • Compared to making both ends of the country meet back in those days, flying the “Hump” was just a joyhop.1952, American Aviation, volume 16, page 67

Verb

joyhop (third-person singular simple present joyhops, present participle joyhopping, simple past and past participle joyhopped)

  1. To fly for pleasure.

Forms of joyhop

Noun
pluraljoyhops
Verb
third-person singular presentjoyhops
present participlejoyhopping
past participlejoyhopped
pastjoyhopped

Origin of joyhop

From joy + hop.

Questions about joyhop

What does joyhop mean?
Joyhop means a flight taken for pleasure.
What part of speech is joyhop?
Joyhop can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of joyhop?
The plural of joyhop is joyhops.

Words near joyhop in the dictionary

  1. joyfulness
  2. joyfulnesses
  3. joygasm
  4. joygasms
  5. joyhood
  6. joyhop
  7. joyhopped
  8. joyhopping
  9. joyhops
  10. joyhouse
  11. joyhouses

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