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ˈcrow-hop, v.
[f. crow n.1 + hop v.1]
intr. To hop like a crow; also fig. (see quot. 1897). Also as n., a hopping movement like that of a crow.
1897Chicago Tribune 25 July 15/2 Crow Hop, to ‘craw⁓fish’. ‘Leedy has crow hopped out of the special session of the Legislature.’ 1903Wide World Mag. Apr. 548 The ways they try to throw their riders may be classed under three heads. The first is known as the crow-hop. 1907S. E. White Arizona Nights i. xiv. 207 Sometimes we crow-hopped solemnly around and around the prostrate Schwartz. 1944R. F. Adams Western Words 45 Crow hop, when a horse jumps about with arched back and stiffened knees at a pretense of bucking. |