hopping
About 1.29 uses per million words.
Meaning
- noun hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
- noun The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
- verb present participle and gerund of hop
- noun The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
- noun A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.
- adjective That uses hopping for locomotion.
- adjective Of a location, crowded with people.
Similar words
jumping affix lindy island bounding leaping skipping springing vaulting hurdling
Often followed by
on and about from around in up mad along
Word family
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