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Hopscotch

//ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 1
    A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground. uncountable

    "No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone."

  2. 2
    a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone wordnet
Verb
  1. 1
    To move by hopping. figuratively, intransitive

    "As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy."

  2. 2
    To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping. figuratively, intransitive

    "Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling."

Etymology

Etymology 1

From hop + scotch (“scratch”).

Etymology 2

From hop + scotch (“scratch”).

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