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  • proper noun A patronymic surname.

Etymologies

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From Hob +‎ -kin.

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Examples

  • The problems at the Student Loans Company that are highlighted by the "Hopkin" report are systemic.

    Comments from all Computer Weekly blogs 2009

  • WARD: Ingenue folksinger Mary Hopkin was a Paul McCartney discovery, and if Beatles fans were shocked at his producing such a sentimental piece of schlock, they hadn't been paying attention.

    Finding The Best Of The Bands On The Beatles' Label 2010

  • WARD: Ingenue folksinger Mary Hopkin was a Paul McCartney discovery, and if Beatles fans were shocked at his producing such a sentimental piece of schlock, they hadn't been paying attention.

    Finding The Best Of The Bands On The Beatles' Label 2010

  • WARD: Ingenue folksinger Mary Hopkin was a Paul McCartney discovery, and if Beatles fans were shocked at his producing such a sentimental piece of schlock, they hadn't been paying attention.

    Finding The Best Of The Bands On The Beatles' Label 2010

  • The men were cared for by John Lewis Hopkin, the grandson of the ranch’s original owner, and Sterling, the man who helped him during the years I herded.

    Excerpt: Claiming Ground by Laura Bell 2010

  • WARD: Ingenue folksinger Mary Hopkin was a Paul McCartney discovery, and if Beatles fans were shocked at his producing such a sentimental piece of schlock, they hadn't been paying attention.

    Finding The Best Of The Bands On The Beatles' Label 2010

  • WARD: Ingenue folksinger Mary Hopkin was a Paul McCartney discovery, and if Beatles fans were shocked at his producing such a sentimental piece of schlock, they hadn't been paying attention.

    Finding The Best Of The Bands On The Beatles' Label 2010

  • Richard Hopkin, a managing director at the Association for Financial Markets in Europe, a lobby group, welcomed the "slight relaxation" in the proposals but said they still threaten rating firms' independence.

    Plans to Tighten Rules On Credit Firms Stalled Laurence Norman 2011

  • Hopkin, who concluded there had been a "conspicuous failure in key areas" with a far-reaching impact on students, will take over as interim chair.

    Student loans bosses forced to quit after warnings of renewed chaos 2010

  • In researching this article, well looking for the name of the Indian restaurant where "the incident" took place, I came across this review of a book entitled "The Labour Party in Wales 1900-2000 edited by Duncan Tanner, Chris Williams and Deian Hopkin".

    Archive 2008-01-01 Not a sheep 2008

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