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hopscotch

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Etymology

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Fromhop +‎scotch(scratch).

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Noun

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hopscotch (uncountable)

  1. (playgroundgames) A child'sgame, in which a player,hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced orscotched on the ground.
    • 1922 February,James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, inUlysses, Paris:Shakespeare and Company, [],→OCLC:
      No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over ahopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.

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child's game

Verb

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hopscotch (third-person singular simple presenthopscotches,present participlehopscotching,simple past and past participlehopscotched)

  1. (intransitive, figuratively) To move byhopping.
    • 2022 April 6, Michael Steinberger, “How the ​​‘Homeless Billionaire’ Became a Philosopher King”, inThe New York Times[1],→ISSN:
      As hehopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy.
  2. (intransitive, figuratively) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if byhopping.
    • 1979 April 28, Pat M. Kuras, “Connecting With Women”, inGay Community News, page15:
      Although the events describedhop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion[sic] and is rarely rambling.
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