Hopper

UK: /ˈhɒpə/ US: /ˈhɑpɚ/ ,(hop′ər)

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Hopper / ˈhɒpə/ noun

1. Edward. 1882–1967, US painter, noted for his realistic depiction of everyday scenes

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hop•per /ˈhɑpɚ/   n. [countable]

1. a person or thing that hops.
2. Insects any jumping insect.
3. a funnel-shaped bin in which loose material, as grain or coal, is stored temporarily.
4. Government a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.

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hop•per  (hop′ər), n. 

1. a person or thing that hops.
2. Informal Terms 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. Insects any of various jumping insects, as grasshoppers or leafhoppers.
4. British Terms [Australian.] 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. Rail Transport See hopper car. 
7. Government [U.S. Politics.] a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.
8. Building one of the pieces at each side of a hopper casement.
9. Informal Terms in the hopper, in preparation;
   about to be realized:
   Plans for the class reunion are in the hopper.

• 1200–50; Middle English; see hop¹, -er¹

Hop•per  (hop′ər), n. 

1. Biographical Edward, 1882–1967, U.S. painter and etcher.
2. Biographical Grace Murray, 1906–92, U.S. naval officer and computer scientist.

(William) De Wolf  (də wŏŏlf ), 1858–1935, U.S. actor.

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hopper / ˈhɒpə/ 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. Also called: hoppercar an open-topped railway truck for bulk transport of loose minerals, etc, unloaded through doors on the underside
6. 
   another name for cocopan
7. a device formerly used for holding punched cards and feeding them to a card punch or card reader