hopping mad

[hop-ing]

hop·ping

[hop-ing]
adjective
1.
working energetically; busily engaged: He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.
2.
going from one place or situation to another of a similar specified type (usually used in combination): restaurant-hopping.
3.
hopping mad, furious; enraged: He was hopping mad when his daughter dropped out of college.

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Hopping mad is always a great word to know.
So is zedonk. Does it mean:
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.
the offspring of a zebra and a donkey.

Origin:
1665–75; hop1 + -ing2
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hopping mad definition


  1. mod.
    very angry; angry and jumping up and down. : I was hopping mad about the broken window.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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hopping mad

Enraged, furious, as in I was hopping mad when they left my name off the list. This expression conjures up an image of jumping up and down with rage. [Colloquial; early 1800s]

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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