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The correct spelling is hopping.
How to pronounce hopping
noun
Say it like: Hop-pin-g
The correct spelling is hopping. Hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent. For example: "Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977)."
Usage Examples
“Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).”
“Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.”
“He hopped a train to California.”
Meanings
noun
- 1.Hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
- 2.The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
- 3.The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
- 4.A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.
verb
- 1.To jump a short distance.
- 2.To jump on one foot.
- 3.To be in state of energetic activity.
- 4.To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
- 5.To jump onto, or over
adjective
- 1.Of a location, crowded with people.
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