hopper
/ˈhɑpər/
noun
- A container that holds material (such as grain, coal, or sand) and feeds it into a machine or process.
- The farmer poured corn into the hopper of the grinder.
- The delivery truck dumped gravel into the hopper at the construction site.
- A hopper on the top of the machine slowly releases pellets into the furnace.
- A person or thing that hops.
- The kangaroo is the most famous hopper in Australia.
- My little brother is a constant hopper, never staying still for a moment.
- The grasshopper is a well-known hopper in the garden.
- A railroad car that opens at the bottom to unload its cargo.
- A hopper car can carry up to 100 tons of ore.
- The train had twenty hopper cars filled with coal.
- Workers opened the hopper doors to release the grain.
- A type of insect that jumps, such as a leafhopper or grasshopper.
- The hopper damaged the crops by sucking sap from the leaves.
- A green hopper landed on the tomato plant.
- Farmers use nets to protect their fields from hoppers.
verb
- To move by hopping; to jump lightly.
- Children hopper from one stepping stone to the next.
- She hopper over the puddle to avoid getting her shoes wet.
- The rabbit hopper across the field.