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▪ I. hoppy, a.1|ˈhɒpɪ|
[f. hop n.1+ -y1.]
1. Tasting or smelling of hops; beery.
1893Harper's Mag. Feb. 458 Jest so it don't tas'e hoppy, I ain't pertic'lar; but from hoppy bread deliver me! 1964Listener 26 Mar. 534/3 Over cool dinner, the sour hoppy breath.
2. Of, pertaining to, or characterized by drugs or drug-taking. U.S. slang. (Cf. hop n.1 4.)
1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §509/30 Hoppy, smelling of drugs. 1946Mezzrow & Wolfe Really Blues (1957) vii. 98 Detroit is really a hoppy town—people must order their opium along with their groceries.
▪ II. hoppy, a.2 colloq.|ˈhɒpɪ|
[f. hop n.2 + -y1.]
Characterized by, or predisposed to, hopping; lively, full of movement; limping, lame.
1860[implied in hoppiness]. 1902in Eng. Dial. Dict. III. 232 ‘To go hoppy’ is to walk rather lame. Among the working classes, lame persons are often nicknamed ‘Oppy’, as ‘Oppy Smith’, which denotes a certain Smith who is somewhat lame. 1914Joyce Dubliners 171 He had a game leg and for this his friends called him Hoppy Holohan. 1934A. Woollcott While Rome Burns (1936) 42 Juventino Rosas..who once wrote a pleasant and rather hoppy waltz. 1942Berrey & Van den Bark Amer. Thes. Slang §53/15 Rapid; quick, hoppy. Ibid. §131/11 Crippled; lame, hoppy. 1968K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 119 It's a damned good thing these hoppy bastards [sc. kangaroos] can't understand me.
Also ˈhoppiness, hopping manner or quality.
1860J. White Hist. France (ed. 2) 3 Animals [frogs]..the exact image of himself in hoppiness of motion.
▪ III. hoppy, n.1 colloq.|ˈhɒpɪ|
[f. hop n.2 + -y6.]
A lame man.
1904‘No. 1500’ Life in Sing Sing xiii. 249/2 Hoppy, a cripple. 1909S. Watson Wops the Waif iii. 5 Who-ay, Cully, here's Hoppy with the Rozin. 1962J. Franklyn Dict. Nicknames 49 Hoppy, the nickname of anyone who walks with a limp.
▪ IV. hoppy, n.2 U.S. slang.|ˈhɒpɪ|
[f. hop n.1 + -y6.]
An opium addict. (Cf. hop n.3 4.)
1922E. F. Murphy Black Candle ii. i. 114 The Chinese here still furnish a large percentage of the ‘hoppies’. 1924G. C. Henderson Keys to Crookdom xxiv. 301 Even the ‘hoppies’ themselves look down on a user of cocaine. 1941B. Hecht 1001 Afternoons in N.Y. 129 A lush, a prosty, a hoppy, and a pain in the neck, say the police. |