Hopped vs. Hopper — What's the Difference?

To move with light bounding skips or leaps.

One that hops.

(Informal) To move quickly or be busily active

A usually funnel-shaped container in which materials, such as grain or coal, are stored in readiness for dispensation.

To jump on one foot or with both feet at the same time.

A freight car with a door in the floor through which materials are unloaded.

To make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.

A box in which a bill is placed pending formal introduction before a legislature.

To travel or move often from place to place. Often used in combination

(Informal) A place in which something is held in readiness

To move over by hopping

One who or that which hops.

(Informal) To get on (a train) surreptitiously in order to ride without paying a fare

A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.

To flavor with hops.

A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.

A light springy jump or leap, especially on one foot or with both feet at the same time.

A bin or device that feeds material into a machine.

A rebound

Various insects

(Informal) A dance or dance party.

A grasshopper or locust, especially:

A short distance.

The larva of a cheese fly.

A short trip, especially by air.

A leafhopper.

A free ride; a lift.

Any of various hesperiid butterflies.

A twining vine (Humulus lupulus) having lobed leaves and green female flowers arranged in conelike spikes.

An artificial fishing lure.

Hops The dried female inflorescences of this plant, containing a bitter aromatic oil. They are used in brewing to inhibit bacterial growth and to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer.

(slang) A toilet.

(Slang) Opium.

(music) An escapement lever in a piano.

Simple past tense and past participle of hop

(obsolete) The game of hopscotch.

Impregnated with hops.

A window with hinges at the bottom, opened by tilting vertically.

Impregnated with hops.

A hopper car.

(chess) A fairy chess piece which moves only by jumping over another piece.

A person or machine that picks hops.

A Sri Lankan pancake made from a fermented batter of rice flour, coconut milk, and palm toddy or yeast.

One who, or that which, hops.

A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.

See Grasshopper, 2.

A game. See Hopscotch.

See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.

A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; - called also dumping scow.

Funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below

Someone who hops;

A machine used for picking hops

Terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping

(baseball) a hit that travels along the ground