meaning of hopper
1. One who, or that which, hops.
2. 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. See Grasshopper, 2.
4. A game. See Hopscotch.
5. See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
6. The larva of a cheese fly.
7. 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. baseball a hit that travels along the ground
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