spy-hop
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.01 in modern English
16
Scrabble Score
6
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of spyhop.
verb
Alternative form of spyhop.
Example Sentences
- "Gradually, spy-hopping humpbacks viewing whaling vessels became mating whales embracing in a double spy-hop."
- "Soon, a mother whale marked by nature with a white, iris-shaped star on her side and a calf with a matching star surfaced bear the bow of our boat where I was sitting. Then they popped up together in a dual spy-hop."
- "Humpbacks are known to spy-hop and are perhaps the most aerial of cetaceans."
- "It was once thought that they stood on their tails on the ocean bottom to do this, but grays have been seen spy-hopping in very deep water and obviously can spy-hop merely by treading water with their tail flukes."
- "Much of what these whales are doing eludes us. This became evident when I asked Payne whether we know why they spy-hop and breach."