Hopper (noun) Definition, Meaning & Examples

noun
  1. a person or thing that hops.
  2. 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.
  3. any of various jumping insects, as grasshoppers or leafhoppers.
  4. kangaroo.
  5. 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.
  6. hopper car.
  7. a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.
  8. one of the pieces at each side of a hopper casement.
Idioms
  1. in preparation; about to be realized: Plans for the class reunion are in the hopper.
noun
  1. U.S. painter and etcher.
  2. U.S. naval officer and computer scientist.
  3. U.S. actor.
noun
  1. a person or thing that hops
  2. 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
  3. a machine used for picking hops
  4. any of various long-legged hopping insects, esp the grasshopper, leaf hopper, and immature locust
  5. an open-topped railway truck for bulk transport of loose minerals, etc, unloaded through doors on the underside
  6. Southern African another name for cocopan
  7. a device formerly used for holding punched cards and feeding them to a card punch or card reader
noun
  1. Edward. 1882–1967, US painter, noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes
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