Thesaurus: hopper

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1. n. One who, or that which, hops.
2. n. A chute, box, or receptacle, usually funnel-shaped with an opening at the lower part, for delivering or feeding any material, as to a machine; as, the wooden box with its trough through which grain passes into a mill by joining or shaking, or a funnel through which fuel passes into a furnace, or coal, etc., into a car.
3. n. See Grasshopper, 2.
4. n. A game. See Hopscotch.
5. n. See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
6. n. The larva of a cheese fly.
7. n. A vessel for carrying waste, garbage, etc., out to sea, so constructed as to discharge its load by a mechanical contrivance; -- called also dumping scow.
8. n. funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
9. n. someone who hops
10. n. a machine used for picking hops
11. n. terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
12. n. (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground