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Definition of Hop-skip
1. Verb. Jump lightly.
Generic synonyms: Bound, Jump, Leap, Spring
Derivative terms: Hop, Hop, Hopper, Hopper, Hopper, Skip
Also: Hop On, Skip Over
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hop-skip
Literary usage of Hop-skip
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Werner Primer for Beginners in Reading by Frances Lilian Taylor (1895)
"One day a rabbit was playing hop, skip, and jump in the grass. He laughed at a
turtle who crawled slowly by and bragged about his own running. ..."
2. Hither and Thither, Or, Good Times for Papa's Little Daughters by Mary Dow Brine (1884)
"a hop. skip and jump down the lane. The ferns and gay mosses were gathered, and
then Margie proposed that they should be hidden safely under a stone beside ..."
3. Lessons in English by Fred Newton Scott, Gordon Augustus Southworth (1906)
"LESSON LXXXV WORDS THAT HAVE NEARLY THE SAME MEANING You have made a hop-skip-and-jump
or watched others make it. What is the difference between the hop and ..."
4. Parts of the body in older Germanic and Scandinavian by Torild Washington Arnoldson (1916)
"Lux. hippen lahm sein, auf einem Bein hinken, Fris. hippe hop, skip, frisk,
bounce, Groning. hippen the jumping of small insects, ..."
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