Hopper

Word HOPPER
Character 6
Hyphenation hop per
Pronunciations /ˈhɔp.ə/

Definitions and meanings of "Hopper"

What do we mean by hopper?

One that hops. noun

A usually funnel-shaped container in which materials, such as grain or coal, are stored in readiness for dispensation. noun

A freight car with a door in the floor through which materials are unloaded. noun

A box in which a bill is placed pending formal introduction before a legislature. noun

A place in which something is held in readiness. noun

A hop-picker. noun

In brewing, a vat in which the infusion of hops is prepared to be added to the wort. noun

In geology, a hopper-shaped pit or depression in the land. noun

Having the form of an inverted pyramid: as, a hopper ship, the bottom of which consists of a series of hoppers: a type of vessel used on the Great Lakes for carrying bulk cargoes.

One who or that which hops. noun

Specifically — A cheese-hopper. noun

A butterfly: same as skipper noun

A grasshopper noun

A saltatorial homopterous insect; a cercopid, in a broad sense: as, a froghopper; a tree-hopper. noun

A saltatorial beetle; one of the Halticidœ. noun

A seal of the second year. noun

A wild swan. noun

Plural A game in which the players hop or leap on one leg; hop-scotch. noun

A trough, usually shaped like an inverted cone, through which grain or anything to be ground or crushed passes into a mill: so called because at one time it had a hopping or shaking motion. It is now stationary, and leads the grain to the shaking-shoe. noun

One who or that which hops.

A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.

A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.

A device that feeds material into a machine.

Various insects

An artificial fishing lure.

A toilet.

An escapement lever in a piano.

The game of hopscotch.

A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.

A hopper car.

A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.

A person or machine that picks hops.

Young street level drug dealer Urban Dictionary

Toliet; what you sit on when you take a shit Urban Dictionary

In an elevator of a high-rise building, a random person come in, in the middle of your elevator ride just to go a few floors up or down costing you valuable time. Urban Dictionary

The plastic pod type thing you use to hold paintballs when playing,also called a "loader" Urban Dictionary

Either the shitter that got plugged or Jim Hopper (Stranger Things™℠®©℗Ⓟⓤⓚ) Urban Dictionary

Type of Disney tickets that lets you in to multiple parks. Urban Dictionary

1. Lowest form of human being (some even argue that they are in fact NOT), known for infesting low tide areas and flood plains of rivers, lakes and damns. It is also believed they are largely responsble for still fish, bait, women and most lifeforms from the areas they inhabite. They are normally easily identified by there knee high gumboots, bait pumps and general scoundrel attitudes 2. Other common terms for hoppers include Scoundrels, Mongrels, Lowlifes, Whores, and Downright fucking assholes. Urban Dictionary

A tryhard cowboy/ cowgirl easily spotted by their cheep boots, sheep farmers hat and a belt buckle they paid for may also drink either VB or jimbean Urban Dictionary

The Hopper is a strange child seen in school yards. The Hopper is only friends with the dinnerladies but The Hopper craves attention. The Hopper will go up to the largest group of thugs/bullies/hooligans and say a disgusting lie about THEMSELVES in order to get beaten up. The Hopper will also ask people to beat him up because its attention. The Hopper is rare and only found in 1/5 schools but once secondary school has finished The Hopper will disappear from view and most people will never see them again. Urban Dictionary

A hopper is someone who dates boys/girls incredibly fast. A hopper hops from different boys/girls. You are a hopper if you date like 2 people in the span of like 4 days. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Hopper

The word "hopper" in example sentences

What's interesting about the mental hopper is that when something goes in there, I can usually figure out a way to make it happen (except sex at 13). ❋ Unknown (2010)

I'd say that artificial foam hopper is closer to a fly than a 4 au natural bunny pike fly. ❋ Unknown (2009)

What's interesting about the mental hopper is that when something goes in there, I can usually figure out a way to make it happen (except sex at 14). ❋ Unknown (2009)

A pipe is placed just beneath the surface of the water, and this pipe leads to a pump on shore which sucks the berries into a metal box called a hopper. ❋ V.C. Andrews® (1997)

Then, we're off for Klah ... if I can find the settings on the D-hopper, that is. ❋ Asprin, Robert (1987)

Under the hopper were the ends of two inclined chutes extending out sidewise beyond the car -- one to the right and one to the left -- and over the slab molds on each side. ❋ Halbert Powers Gillette (N/A)

Taking advantage of this fact, the fruit-grower may jar them on sheets; or, in large orchards, into a large canvas hopper, which is wheeled from tree to tree upon a wheelbarrow-like frame, and under the apex of which is a tin can into which the insects roll. ❋ Unknown (1906)

Oh, and they also will have the most lottery balls in next year's hopper, which is shaping up to be one of the worst drafts in recent history; maybe they'll wind up with Blake Griffin, who looks like another meh pro to me. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Thrown into the hopper was a bill proposing a new tax on stock and derivatives transactions by Sen. Tom Harkin, an Iowa Democrat, and Rep. Peter DeFazio, a Democrat from Oregon.

_May_ to the end of _August_: it is a brownish Flie, and stands alwayes with his head towards the root of the tree, very easie to be found: The small black Flie is to be had one evry Hawthorn Bush, after the buds be come forth: Your Grasse-hopper, which is green, is to be had in any Medow of Grasse in _June_ or _July_: with these Flies, you must Angle with such a Rod as you Angle with the ground Bait; the Line must not be so long as the Rod: with drawing your flie, as you finde convenient in your Angling. ❋ Thomas Barker (N/A)

There are also those in the 9/11 Truth Movement who think Giuliani might have been a "hopper" – - as in LIHOP or MIHOP. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Inftead of a drill-box, or hopper, which is ofed in ploughs, take a tin por - ringer, and punch three or four holes in the bottom, in the nature of a cullender, jaft the fize of the gtain or feed you have to fow,; by fliaking along the furrow, you may bring yourfelf to a tolerable de - gree of exaftncfs, and fwiftnefs tooj for one man may fow as faft as a plough will go. ❋ Unknown (1770)

Apparatus designed in accordance with the sketch M, or with the modification just described, are usually referred to under the name of "hopper" generators. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

The "Omega" apparatus made by this firm consists of a generating tank containing water, and surmounted by a hopper which is filled with carbide of 1/4-inch size. ❋ W. J. Atkinson Butterfield (N/A)

The seeds -- all the seeds, in fact, he eats -- pass at once into his crop, or the natural "hopper" to his "gristmill," where they undergo a moistening or macerating process previous to being ground into the finest pulp in the gizzard. ❋ R. W. Wright (N/A)

After being thoroughly washed, they are put in the "hopper," mixed with bran or sawdust, to be dried. ❋ Various (N/A)

At one side of the try-works was a large wooden vessel, or "hopper," to contain the raw blubber; at the other, a copper cistern or cooler of about 300 gallons capacity, into which the prepared oil was baled to cool off, preliminary to its being poured into the casks. ❋ Frank T. Bullen (1886)

A kind of hopper containing fine silicious sand was connected with a reservoir of compressed air, the pressure being variable at pleasure. ❋ John Tyndall (1856)

I know [the cops] are gone because the [hoppers] are [back out]. ❋ Jim King (2005)

John is [sitting on] [the hopper]. [I'm going to go] sit on the hopper. ❋ Koos Koos (2007)

Chris: "Late again?" Jake: "Yeah, damn [hoppers] [make me] stop at every [floor]" ❋ Beladorkid (2011)

[You need] to [refill] your hopper looks a bit [low] ❋ Chef Boyar-G (2006)

I [plugged] [the hopper] SPOILER: [Hopper] didn't die in the last episode of season 4 ❋ DaCuteRaccoon (2022)

[Hommie]: Yo, what's good tomorrow? Me: Got the kids, we going Disney. Got them park "[hoppers]" cuz the kids wanna hit up both [Disneyland] and California Adventure. ❋ Gotkush127 (2013)

whilst driving one might exclaim ''oiiii [fuk off] you dowright fuking [mongrel] hopper'' ''wearing [gumboots]? what are ya a fukin hopper' ❋ Greg Thorne (2007)

Look at that hopper try to [ride]... oh....shit he just [died]...[hahahaha] ❋ Ringer_from_the_top_end (2006)

To Bullies:- "I [shagged] a [budgie]!" "If you dont [beat me] up your gay" "I want to stick my tongue in my mummys mouth then poo in it" ❋ Adam Clarke (2004)

Did you know Sarah dated [Henry] then broke up with him? Less than a day later she was dating [Krish]. She is such a [hopper]. ❋ Fat_Moma (2019)

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