code-hopv.
/ˈkəʊdhɒp/, U.S. /ˈkoʊdˌ(h)ɑp/, Australian English /ˈkoʊdhɔp/, New Zealand English /ˈkʌudhɒp/ Originally New Zealand and Australian.
intransitive. Of a sportsperson: to switch from playing one form of football to another, esp. from rugby union to rugby league or vice versa.Sometimes in more general use with reference to other sports.
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2006 N.Z. Herald 13 May (Weekend Herald section) d5/1 Australian league centre Mark Gasnier haggles between the codes in a blaze of publicity, and Henry Paul code hops at will.
2017 Gold Coast Bull. (Austral.) (Nexis) 28 Oct. (Sport section) 99 Blair called on his New Zealand teammate..to stick with rugby league after reports surfaced yesterday of his desire to code-hop to rugby union.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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