Associations to the word «Hopping»

Wiktionary

HOPPING, noun. (British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
HOPPING, noun. The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
HOPPING, verb. Present participle of hop
HOPPING, noun. The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
HOPPING, noun. (countable) (physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.
HOPPING DICK, noun. A Jamaican thrush (Turdus aurantius), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage.
HOPPING MAD, adjective. (idiomatic) Extremely angry; furious to the point of outburst.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats