hopping

Meanings

Noun

• hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent.
• The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent
• The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing.
• A shift from one energy-state to another by an electron in an atom.

Verb

• Present participle of hop

Adjective

• Of a location, crowded with people.

Origin

• Alternative spelling (C17) of hoppe, from Middle French houbelon