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hopping
[ hop-ing ]
adjective
- working energetically; busily engaged:
He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.
- going from one place or situation to another of a similar specified type (usually used in combination):
restaurant-hopping.
hopping
/ ˈ³óÉ’±èɪŋ /
noun
- the action of a person or animal that hops
- dialect.a fair, esp ( the Hoppings ) an annual fair in Newcastle
adjective
- hopping madin a terrible rage
˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins
Idioms and Phrases
- hopping mad, furious; enraged:
He was hopping mad when his daughter dropped out of college.
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Example Sentences
“I was like, I’m gonna just start hopping on this wagon, too. I started taking meals, doing what I do, the next morning I’m eating good at 7 in the morning with the other kids.â€
He realized otherwise once he started hopping on Zooms with company executives from around the country, leading to his signing a deal with undisclosed terms.
It is unlikely that the instruments on board can now be used, including a drill to penetrate the lunar soil, a hopping robot to explore a shadowed crater, and the first lunar antenna.
A private US company will attempt to land a spacecraft close to the Moon's South Pole on Thursday, carrying scientific instruments including a hopping robot and the first lunar mobile communications antenna.
"When I first met Riley he already knew he was going to lose the bottom half of his leg and he was practicing hopping up the stairs," Mr Day said.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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