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hop⋅ping

  [hop-ing]
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–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.
—Idiom
3. hopping mad, furious; enraged: He was hopping mad when his daughter dropped out of college.
Origin:
1665–75; hop 1 + -ing 2
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hop·ping mad   (hŏp'ĭng)
adj.  Extremely angry.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
hopping mad

  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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Idioms & Phrases

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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