hippity-hop

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.87 in modern English

Syllables: hip-pi-ty-hop
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Meaning

adj

Moving by hopping, having an uneven gait.

adj

Proceeding through uneven stages.

adv

Unevenly, with a hopping gait.

noun

A hop

verb

to hop.

noun

hip-hop (music)

Humorous; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"There must be hundreds of them killed every summer day - and, it's no wonder when one observes the erratic, hippity-hop way they try to cross the road."
"In 1927, when United Air Lines began service over a hippity-hop route between San Francisco and Chicago, Cheyenne again rather than Denver was picked as a stop."
"So he mounted the horse, which went hippity-hop, hippity-hop."
"Which show how the tortoise moved? hopped / waddled / scampered / scurried / plodded / ran hippity-hop / took one slow step after another"
"I'm not much into teh hippity-hop like teh kids."

Etymology

Compound of hippity + hop, in turn from hip (a regional variant of hop) + -ety. Attested since the middle nineteenth century, with hippity-hoppity appearing somewhat earlier.

Word Breakdown

Suffix: hip

Usage

Inflected Forms

more hippity-hop (comparative) most hippity-hop (superlative) hippedy-hop (alternative) hippety-hop (alternative) hippity-hoppity (alternative) hippity-hops (plural) hippity-hops (present, singular) hippity-hopping (participle, present) hippity-hopped (participle, past) hippity-hopped (past)

Phrases

hippity-hoppity

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