1. one that hops.
2. A usually funnel-shaped container in which materials, such as grain or coal, are stored in readiness for dispensation.
3. A freight car with a door in the floor through which materials are unloaded.
4. A box in which a bill is placed pending formal introduction before a legislature.
5. informal A place in which something is held in readiness: a studio with many potential blockbusters in the hopper.

1. A temporary storage bin, filled from the top and emptied from the bottom, often funnel-shaped.
2. A funnel-shaped section at the top of a drainpipe used to collect water, from above, from one or more smaller drainpipes.
3. one who hops.
4. the immature form of a locust
5. an artificial fishing lure
6. an escapement lever in a piano; a grasshopper.

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; , into a car.
3. see grasshopper, 2.
4. A game. see hopscotch.
5.
6. see grasshopper, and frog hopper, grape hopper, leaf hopper, tree hopper, under frog, grape, leaf, and tree.
7. the larva of a cheese fly.
8. 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.

1. in geology, a hopper-shaped pit or depression in the land.
2. having the form of an inverted pyramid: as, a hopper ship, the bottom of which consists of a series of hoppers: a type of vessel used on the great lakes for carrying bulk cargoes.
3. one who or that which hops.
4. specifically — A cheese-hopper.
5. A butterfly: same as skipper
6. A grasshopper
7. A saltatorial homopterous insect; a cercopid, in a broad sense: as, a froghopper; a tree-hopper.
8. A saltatorial beetle; one of the Halticidœ.
9. A seal of the second year.
10. A wild swan.
11. plural A game in which the players hop or leap on one leg; hop-scotch.
12. A trough, usually shaped like an inverted cone, through which grain or anything to be ground or crushed passes into a mill: so called because at one time it had a hopping or shaking motion. it is now stationary, and leads the grain to the shaking-shoe.
13. A tray or basket in which a sower carries seed; a seed-basket.
14. A boat having a compartment with a movable bottom, to receive the mud or gravel from a dredging-machine and convey it to deep water, where, on opening the bottom, the mud or gravel falls out. also called hopper-barge.
15. same as hopper-car.
16. in a double-action pianoforte movement, a piece attached to the back of a key to raise the hammer.
17. same as hoppet, 3.
18. A hop-picker.
19. in brewing, a vat in which the infusion of hops is prepared to be added to the wort.

1. terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
2. funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
3. (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
4. someone who hops
5. a machine used for picking hops