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Mad modifier
Answer for the clue "Mad modifier ", 7 letters:
hopping
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. jump lightly [syn: skip , hop-skip ] move quickly from one place to another informal: travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; "She hopped a train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country" make a quick trip especially by air; "Hop the Pacific ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hopping \Hop"ping\, n. The act of one who, or that which, hops; a jumping, frisking, or dancing. Hopping Dick (Zo["o]l.), a thrush of Jamaica ( Merula leucogenys ), resembling the English blackbird in its familiar manners, agreeable song, and dark plumage. ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. 1 (context British English) hop picking, the practice of picking hops; for Londoners a holiday period working in the hop gardens of Kent. 2 The addition of hops during the production of beer as a flavouring agent Etymology 2 n. 1 The act ...
Usage examples of hopping.
He had one hand below him and managed to push the hatch back as they descended, Avelyn rolling right over the hatchway, the deceivingly agile powrie hopping to its feet atop the now-closed portal.
Belkram stood up on the palm of the hand as it came, tottering about uncertainly like a man on stilts hopping about in a cesspool and likely at any moment to come to a far closer acquaintance with it.
Others sing in sharp, high voices, hopping about continually, like cicalas in delirium.
Stamping and hopping about, suddenly more cheerful because of the sheer silliness of what she was doing, she started dancing with the sunbeams, kicking up swirls of strawdust, until she slipped and landed on her coccyx with a thud that jarred her brain.
Hopping into the office, Ducky came out with a pineapple-shaped object.
Without any warning, the dwarfish hooded figure rushed out of the shadows straight towards him, in a hopping, tumbling, headlong gait, and collided with his legs.
He glanced up to see Carina hopping and leaping madly, like a jerboa, while the Harnish shaman darted in zigzags and circles like a stoat while beating on the skin drum.
Behind the tennis courts my boys from the rostrum were hopping about with their bass drums and kettledrums, their fifes and trumpets.
The next part of the game was hopping a stile for the narrow path to Loombe Hill.
I remember some Ragged Healer by the side of my bed, hopping from one bare foot to the other, and shaking maracas over me as I was falling asleep.
It was just a mynah bird, hopping across a lawn looking for worms and bugs.
Big Nev, the night security guard for the Copelands Health Spa, is hopping from foot to foot and trying not to heave his supper into the pool.
Myrah Skaht, both of them about as damp as was the boy, Buhd, having but just laved themselves and their garments in the riverlet, were clearly hopping mad.
The skald roved the meadow, hopping from camp to camp to sing songs in praise of his patron, finding willing, if somewhat bleary-eyed, listeners for his spirited performances.
They danced about a bush, the magpie tantalisingly holding the moth for acceptance and hopping off as the wagtail was about to snatch it.