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  • noun UK An traditional annual fair, usually at Whitsuntide, formerly associated with livestock markets.
  • noun Plural form of hopping.

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From hop (verb)

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Examples

  • No man knows the black thoughts that lie beneath the jaunty hoppings of its cloven feet.

    This dogoid army bot still haunts my dreams 2009

  • This one is destined to be quite dank with a starting gravity of 19.2 and colossal quadruple-hoppings.

    Archive 2009-08-01 2009

  • This one is destined to be quite dank with a starting gravity of 19.2 and colossal quadruple-hoppings.

    Press Release Thursday - Pearl Street Special Taps At The Great Taste of the Midwest 2009

  • He took care not to say no, but behold! he again recurred to his usual evasions, circumlocutions, and hoppings from bush to bush.

    Chapter XXXVIII 1909

  • An N'goma is a native dance, consisting of drum poundings, chantings, and hoppings around.

    The Land of Footprints Stewart Edward White 1909

  • D'Artagnan of the group, full of queer gestures and hoppings about.

    The Art of the Moving Picture Vachel Lindsay 1905

  • The Babe's weight, slight as it was, on the outer end, together with his occasional ecstatic, though silent, hoppings up and down, had little by little sufficed to slip the haphazard mooring.

    Children of the Wild Charles George Douglas Roberts 1901

  • And wherein differ thy leapings from the hoppings of a frog, or the bouncings of a goat, or friskings of a dog, or gesticulations of a monkey?

    Letters on Demonology and Witchcraft 1885

  • I heard him mutter between his hoppings and dancings, with one foot in the stirrup and a toe to earth, the enemy at his heel, and his inclination half bent upon swinging to the saddle again.

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Complete George Meredith 1868

  • I heard him mutter between his hoppings and dancings, with one foot in the stirrup and a toe to earth, the enemy at his heel, and his inclination half bent upon swinging to the saddle again.

    The Adventures of Harry Richmond — Volume 6 George Meredith 1868

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