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Hopper

//ˈhɒp.ə(ɹ)// name, noun, slang

Definitions

Proper Noun
  1. 1
    A surname.
  2. 2
    An unincorporated community in Stronghurst Township, Henderson County, Illinois, United States.
  3. 3
    An unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States.
Noun
  1. 1
    One who or that which hops.
  2. 2
    A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.

    "Hoppers come in different varieties and can be sweet or savoury, while an egg hopper has an egg in the middle added during cooking."

  3. 3
    (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground wordnet
  4. 4
    A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
  5. 5
    terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping wordnet
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  1. 6
    A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
  2. 7
    funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below wordnet
  3. 8
    A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.
  4. 9
    a machine used for picking hops wordnet
  5. 10
    Various insects; A grasshopper or locust, especially
  6. 11
    someone who hops wordnet
  7. 12
    Various insects; A grasshopper or locust, especially:; The immature form of a locust.

    "I went over and found the mealies and ground covered with large hoppers, about two weeks old."

  8. 13
    Various insects; The larva of a cheese fly.
  9. 14
    Various insects; A leafhopper.
  10. 15
    Various insects; Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
  11. 16
    An artificial fishing lure.

    "To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface."

  12. 17
    A toilet. slang

    "The fresh-water container for the house was above the ceiling directly over the toilet. One day, I was comfortably seated on the hopper minding my own business, when a large portion of the ceiling came crashing down […]"

  13. 18
    An escapement lever in a piano.
  14. 19
    The game of hopscotch. obsolete
  15. 20
    A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
  16. 21
    A hopper car.
  17. 22
    A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.

    "The Leo, Pao (or Cannon, a piece from Chinese chess) and Vao (Z.Mach FCR 1940) are hybrid hoppers that move like a queen, rook or bishop and capture along these lines like a lion."

  18. 23
    A person or machine that picks hops.

Etymology

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English *hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop + -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).

Etymology 2

From Sinhalese ආප්ප (āppa), from Tamil ஆப்பம் (āppam). Doublet of appam.

Etymology 3

* As an English and Scottish surname, from the verb hop; identical to hopper. * As a German surname, from hoppen (“to stumble, limp”), related to above. * As a Dutch surname, from hop (“Humulus lupulus”).

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