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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
hopscotch
noun
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▪ It wasn't squares for hopscotch.
▪ Little girls played tag and stoop-ball, hopscotch, skipped rope; big girls sat under the pine tree and whispered.
▪ The court pointed out that even a game of hopscotch could suddenly break into a fight resulting in serious injury.
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hopscotch

Hopscotch \Hop"scotch`\, n. A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground; -- called also hoppers.

Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
hopscotch

1801 (from 1789 as hop-scot), from hop (v.) + scotch (n.2) "scratch," from the lines scored in the dirt to make the squares for the game.

Wiktionary
hopscotch

n. A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground. vb. 1 (context figuratively English) To move by hopping. 2 (context figuratively English) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by hopping.

WordNet
hopscotch

n. a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone

Wikipedia
Hopscotch

Hopscotch is a children's game that can be played with several players or alone. Hopscotch is a popular playground game in which players toss a small object into numbered spaces of a pattern of rectangles outlined on the ground and then hop or jump through the spaces to retrieve the object.

Hopscotch (film)

Hopscotch is a 1980 American film directed by Ronald Neame and produced by Edie Landau and Ely A. Landau. It was written by Bryan Forbes and Brian Garfield, based on Garfield's novel of the same name.

The film is a comedy starring Walter Matthau as Miles Kendig, a renegade CIA agent intent on publishing a memoir exposing the inner workings of the CIA and the KGB. Sam Waterston and Ned Beatty play Cutter and Myerson, Kendig's protégé and his obnoxious, incompetent, and profane former boss, respectively, and are repeatedly foiled in their attempts to capture him and stop the publication of the damaging memoir. Herbert Lom is Yaskov, the sympathetic KGB agent with an equal interest in his capture. Glenda Jackson plays Isobel von Schoenenberg, his Austrian love interest who helps him stay one step ahead of his captors.

Matthau and Jackson previously appeared together in the 1978 film House Calls. Matthau's son David plays Ross, a bumbling junior CIA agent. Matthau's step-daughter Lucy Saroyan plays the pilot, Carla Fleming.

The film was received in a lukewarm manner by critics and was a moderate financial success during its release. Matthau received a Golden Globe nomination for Best Actor – Motion Picture Musical or Comedy. The Criterion Collection released the film to DVD in 2002.

Hopscotch (Cortázar novel)

Hopscotch is a novel by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar. Written in Paris, it was published in Spanish in 1963 and in English in 1966. For the first U.S. edition, translator Gregory Rabassa split the inaugural National Book Award in the translation category.

Hopscotch is a stream-of-consciousness novel which can be read according to two different sequences of chapters. This novel is often referred to as a counter-novel, as it was by Cortázar himself.

Hopscotch (Brian Garfield novel)

Hopscotch is a 1975 novel by Brian Garfield, in which a CIA field officer walks away from the Agency in order to keep from being retired in place behind a desk, and invites the Agency to pursue him by writing an exposé and mailing chapters of it piecemeal to all the major intelligence agencies around the world, including the CIA. Hopscotch won the 1976 Edgar Award for Best Novel.

In 1980, the novel was made into a film with the same name, for which Garfield also cowrote the screenplay. The film starred Walter Matthau. Although the novel has a dark, cynical tone, the film is a comedy, but the plot follows that of the novel fairly closely.

Hopscotch (programming language)

Hopscotch is a visual programming language developed by Hopscotch Technologies, designed to allow young or beginner programmers to develop simple projects. Its simple UI allows its users to drag and drop blocks to create scripts of which can be played when activated. Although the language is easy to use, to develop more advanced pieces of code is almost impossible and requires more powerful languages. The use of the language is through an iPad or iPhone supporting Hopscotch.

Hopscotch (company)

Hopscotch is an e-commerce company founded in 2011 by Rahul Anand (alum of Harvard Business School and the University of Michigan) where it is headquartered in Mumbai, India. Hopscotch is a curated store featuring a variety of international and local branded merchandise for kids, mom and home. Rahul previously worked at Diapers.com one of the largest baby e-commerce sites in the U.S.

Hopscotch (Emmelie de Forest song)

"Hopscotch" is a single by Danish singer-songwriter Emmelie de Forest. It was released on 10 August 2015 as a digital download in Denmark. The song was written by Emmelie de Forest, Tore Nissen, and Ali Zuckowski.

Hopscotch (disambiguation)

Hopscotch is a simple children's schoolyard game.

Hopscotch may also refer to:

  • Hopscotch (Julio Cortázar novel)
  • Hopscotch (Brian Garfield novel)
    • Hopscotch (film), a film based on Brian Garfield's novel
  • Hopscotch, a novel by Kevin J. Anderson
  • Hopscotch, an album by Mothfight, and the title song
  • Hopscotch Music Festival
  • Hopscotch (company), an Indian e-commerce company
  • Hopscotch hashing
  • Hopscotch pattern, a floor tile layout with squares of two different sizes
  • Hopscotch (programming language), a visual programming language
  • Hopscotch Records, record label co-founded by Assif Tsahar
  • Hopscotch (card game), a card game for one player

Usage examples of "hopscotch".

If only Hopscotch She stopped herself before she could finish the thought.

She turned to see the old carny, Hopscotch, standing across the midway, watching her.

She saw a shadow move on her right, and she spun her left foot just in time to catch Hopscotch before it could reach her throat.

Rough hands grabbed her and dragged her to her feet, and Buffy recognized most of the carnies: Lonnie, Hopscotch, Rose, and the guy who ran the basketball booth.

While he sang in a strange language, Hopscotch smudged his body with the burning torch until he looked like a grilled fish.

Perfectimundo finds Miriam, it is a complete surprise, a game of hopscotch in which the stone falls into the perfect center of square 3.

He looks to where children play hopscotch beneath the awning of the truck axle company.

In the middle distance some children played hopscotch and bowling the penny.

Rhys would probably ask her to hopscotch into a fresh, rested body so she could finish the job.

Rhys selected the body that most interested him and commanded Teresa to hopscotch with her.

She was obviously conversant with this place, and knew where to place each hoof, as a child knew where to jump amid the squares of a hopscotch game, proficient from long practice.

Only in GENERAL did he have a fair chance, with things like hopscotch, horseshoes, or jacks.

Johnny hanging off the front porch rail, Kikit playing hopscotch along the gently curved walk.

Children played ball, hopscotch and one girl jumped rope, right beneath our apartment windows.

I stood at the fence looking at the children playing hopscotch, and various other games.