hopper

See also: Hopper

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈhɒp.ə(ɹ)/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈhɔp.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈhɑ.pɚ/

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• Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From Middle English hoppere, alteration of *hoppe (found in grashoppe (“grasshopper”)), from Old English *hoppa (“one who hops, hopper”), equivalent to hop +‎ -er. Cognate with Dutch hopper (“hopper”), Swedish hoppare (“hopper, jumper”), Icelandic hoppari (“hopper”).

Noun

hopper (plural hoppers)

a hopper (funnel-shaped bin)

a hopper window

1. One who or that which hops.
2. A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.

   Synonym: feedbin

3. A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
4. A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.

   Synonyms: feeder, feedbin

5. Various insects
   1. A grasshopper or locust, especially:
      1. The immature form of a locust.
         • 1901, J. H. Stansell, “Locust Destruction”, in The Agricultural Journal and Mining Record‎^[1], volume 4, page 21:

           I went over and found the mealies and ground covered with large hoppers, about two weeks old.

   2. The larva of a cheese fly.
   3. A leafhopper.
   4. Any of various hesperiid butterflies.
6. An artificial fishing lure.

   To catch a big fish, use a hopper that jumps across the pond surface.

7. (slang) A toilet.
   • 2010, Robert Hudson, Stories of an Unusual Life, page 250:

     The fresh-water container for the house was above the ceiling directly over the toilet. One day, I was comfortably seated on the hopper minding my own business, when a large portion of the ceiling came crashing down […]

8. (music) An escapement lever in a piano.
9. (obsolete) The game of hopscotch.
10. A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.
11. A hopper car.
12. (chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.
13. A person or machine that picks hops.

Derived terms

• ash-hopper
• bed-hopper
• bell hopper
• club-hopper
• fence hopper
• freight hopper
• froth-hopper
• grasshopper
• hip-hopper
• hopper boy
• hopper car
• hopper crystal
• hopper wagon
• in the hopper
• job-hopper
• leaf-hopper
• leaf hopper
• puddle hopper
• rockhopper
• sandhopper
• space hopper
• summit-hopper
• swan hopper
• table-hopper
• train hopper

 

Translations

that which hops or makes hop

• Finnish: pomppija (which hops), hypyttäjä, hyppyyttäjä (which makes hop)

a temporary storage bin

• Catalan: tremuja (ca) f
• Finnish: suppilo (fi), siilo (fi)
• Galician: moega (gl) f
• German: Trichter (de) m
• Irish: crannóg f
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: matningsinnsats m

• Spanish: tolva (es) f

machine that feeds down

• Finnish: suppilo (fi)

grasshopper — see grasshopper

Further reading

hopper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Etymology 2

From Sinhalese ආප්ප (āppa).

Noun

hopper (plural hoppers)

1. A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.
   • 2010, Channa Dassanayaka, Sri Lankan Flavours, page 20:

     Hoppers come in different varieties and can be sweet or savoury, while an egg hopper has an egg in the middle added during cooking.

Danish

Noun

hopper c

1. indefinite plural of hoppe

Verb

hopper

1. present of hoppe

Norwegian Bokmål

Noun

hopper m or f

1. indefinite plural of hoppe

Verb

hopper

1. present of hoppe

Norwegian Nynorsk

Noun

hopper f

1. indefinite plural of hoppe