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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”).

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.

hopper on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

From Sinhalese ආප්ප (āppa).

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.

hopper c

  1. indefinite plural of hoppe

hopper

  1. present of hoppe

hopper m or f

  1. indefinite plural of hoppe

hopper

  1. present of hoppe

hopper f

  1. indefinite plural of hoppe