- working energetically; busily engaged: He kept the staff hopping in order to get the report finished.
- going from one place or situation to another of a similar specified type (usually used in combination): restaurant-hopping.
- furious; enraged: He was hopping mad when his daughter dropped out of college.
- the action of a person or animal that hops
- a fair, esp (the Hoppings) an annual fair in Newcastle
- in a terrible rage
