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spy hopping

spy hopping is the alternative form of spyhopping.

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

Meaning of spyhopping

Noun

spyhopping (usually uncountable, plural spyhoppings)

  1. (usually) The act of one who spyhops.
    • A second behavior that gray whales often engage in is “spyhopping” — pushing themselves vertically out of the water for up to thirty seconds.[2000, Serge Dedina, Saving the Gray Whale: People, Politics, and Conservation in Baja California, The University of Arizona Press, page 17

Forms of spy hopping

pluralspy hoppings

Questions about spy hopping

What is spy hopping the alternative form of?
Spy hopping is the alternative form of spyhopping.

Words near spy hopping in the dictionary

  1. spy cop
  2. spy cops
  3. spy dust
  4. spy hop
  5. spy hopped
  6. spy hopping
  7. spy hoppings
  8. spy hops
  9. spy money
  10. spy on
  11. spy out

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