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noun
Idiom1.
a person or thing that hops.
2.
Informal. a person who travels or moves frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): a two-week tour designed for energetic city-hoppers.
3.
any of various jumping insects, as grasshoppers or leafhoppers.
4.
Australian. kangaroo.
5.
EXPANDa funnel-shaped chamber or bin in which loose material, as grain or coal, is stored temporarily, being filled through the top and dispensed through the bottom.
6.
Railroads. hopper car.
7.
U.S. Politics. a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.
8.
COLLAPSEone of the pieces at each side of a hopper casement.
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in the hopper, Informal. in preparation; about to be realized: Plans for the class reunion are in the hopper.
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Hoppers
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| a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question. |
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
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Etymonline
Word Origin & History
hopper
"container with narrow opening at bottom," 1277, perhaps from hop (v.) via notion of grain juggling in a mill hopper.
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Science Dictionary
Hopper  (hŏp'ər) Pronunciation Key
American mathematician and computer programmer who in 1951 conceived the idea for an internal computer program, called a compiler, that scanned a set of alphanumeric instructions (such as words and symbols) and compiled a set of binary instructions executed by the machine. Her ideas were widely influential in the development of programming languages, in particular COBOL. |
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