Informal. a person who travels or moves frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): a two-week tour designed for energetic city-hoppers.
any of various jumping insects, as grasshoppers or leafhoppers.
Australian. kangaroo.
a funnel-shaped chamber or bin in which loose material, as grain or coal, is stored temporarily, being filled through the top and dispensed through the bottom.
Railroads. hopper car.
U.S. Politics. a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.
one of the pieces at each side of a hopper casement.
Idioms for hopper
in the hopper, Informal. in preparation; about to be realized: Plans for the class reunion are in the hopper.
Origin of hopper
Middle English word dating back to 1200–50; see origin at hop1, -er1
Stream House of Cards and other Netflix originals right from the Hopper.
Four TV Shows We Can’t Wait to Return In 2015|DISH|December 22, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hopper (1882-1967), had his first major retrospective at the Whitney in 1964.
The Stacks: Edward Hopper’s X-Ray Vision|Hilton Kramer|October 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
In the decade following World War I, Hopper settled on a vein of imagery that has been his special glory ever since.
The Stacks: Edward Hopper’s X-Ray Vision|Hilton Kramer|October 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Hopper was also very interested in what was taking place in the art scene.
Dennis Hopper: The Missing Years|Liza Foreman|June 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
From 1960 to 1967, Hopper disappeared from Hollywood, and this trove of images helps document how he spent his time.
Dennis Hopper: The Missing Years|Liza Foreman|June 25, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Whereupon he began perforce playing his old game of artful dodging, exercising his best powers as a hopper and skipper.
A Reversible Santa Claus|Meredith Nicholson
Sand and water must be supplied, of course, from a hopper, to these smooth cutting discs of iron or copper.
A Dictionary of Arts, Manufactures and Mines|Andrew Ure
Each machine has but just sufficient powder in its hopper to run until a new supply can reach it.
The Wonder Book of Knowledge|Various
Then April came, but not the ship; now it was just as well that the mill was frozen up, for they had nothing to put in the hopper.
The Jesuit Relations and Allied Documents, Vol. I: Acadia, 1610-1613|Various
The dart that shot from his eyes was of an aggressive honesty; and Mr. Hopper's, after an attempt at defiance, were dropped.
The Crisis, Complete|Winston Churchill
British Dictionary definitions for hopper (1 of 2)
hopper
/ (ˈhɒpə) /
noun
a person or thing that hops
a funnel-shaped chamber or reservoir from which solid materials can be discharged under gravity into a receptacle below, esp for feeding fuel to a furnace, loading a railway truck with grain, etc
a machine used for picking hops
any of various long-legged hopping insects, esp the grasshopper, leaf hopper, and immature locust
Also called: hoppercaran open-topped railway truck for bulk transport of loose minerals, etc, unloaded through doors on the underside
Southern African another name for cocopan
computinga device formerly used for holding punched cards and feeding them to a card punch or card reader
British Dictionary definitions for hopper (2 of 2)
Hopper
/ (ˈhɒpə) /
noun
Edward. 1882–1967, US painter, noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes
American mathematician and computer programmer who in 1951 conceived the idea for an internal computer program, called a compiler, that scanned a set of alphanumeric instructions (such as words and symbols) and compiled a set of binary instructions executed by the machine. Her ideas were widely influential in the development of programming languages, in particular COBOL.