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outhopping

outhopping is the present participle of outhop.

Meaning of outhop

Verb

outhop (third-person singular simple present outhops, present participle outhopping, simple past and past participle outhopped)

  1. (transitive) To hop better than; particularly higher than, further than, or faster than.
    • Now believe it or not, kangaroos are actually quite fast and can easily outrun (or perhaps outhop is more appropriate) a human.2015 September 11, Yoni Heisler, “Kangaroo chase sends two golfers running for their lives”, in BGR
    Synonyms:
    outjump

Questions about outhopping

What is outhopping the present participle of?
Outhopping is the present participle of outhop.

Words near outhopping in the dictionary

  1. outhomered
  2. outhomering
  3. outhomers
  4. outhop
  5. outhopped
  6. outhopping
  7. outhops
  8. outhorror
  9. outhorrored
  10. outhorroring
  11. outhorrors

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outhopping (page history and authors); outhop (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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