hopping

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• Rhymes: -ɒpɪŋ

Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon

hopping (countable and uncountable, plural hoppings)

1. (British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
   • Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).
2. The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

hopping

1. present participle and gerund of hop

hopping (countable and uncountable, plural hoppings)

1. The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
2. (countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

hopping (comparative more hopping, superlative most hopping)

1. That uses hopping for locomotion.
2. (US, slang) Of a location, crowded with people.