Hopping

Pronunciation

Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon

Full definition of hopping

Noun

1. (British) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
• Hopping Down in Kent, Alan Bignell (1977).
• 1915, W. Somerset Maugham, "":He took his whole family to a hop-field in Kent, not far from Mrs. Athelny's home, and they spent three weeks hopping.
2. The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent

to hop

Verb

1. Present participle of hop

Noun

1. The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
2. (countable, physics) A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.