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UK
/hˈɒpskɒtʃ/
]
[ US /ˈhɑpˌskɑtʃ/ ]
[ US /ˈhɑpˌskɑtʃ/ ]
NOUN
- 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
How To Use hopscotch In A Sentence
- And even when the songs hopscotched over musical logic, they scanned, because - analysis fails here - they sounded so gorgeous.
- The joys were in simple games - hopscotch, hide-and-go-seek, tag, etc.
- The story hopscotched over to Bernard Weinraub, who covers Hollywood for The New York Times.
- If it's raining lightly, go out for a game of mud-puddle hopscotch.
- Rick Perry hopscotched across Texas on Wednesday to sign ceremonial copies of a new workers' compensation bill.
- Children play hide-and-seek, hopscotch, round dances, and marbles.
- The part you don't understand comes from this long-winded, self-impressed sentence which demonstrates how wordy he wants to be by hitting us over the head with as many adjectives as a thesaurus can muster: "There's a kind of joyful hopscotch, a cavalierism, a dandyishness, an enrichment, about alien presences in English, which otherwise remains for me a chewed, utilitarian, mercantile language. Languagehat.com: THE FOREIGN IN ENGLISH.
- It looks like the playing field has evolved into a mine field, and the big boys encourage the new kids to play hopscotch there.
- at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children
- Developments are hopscotching out to the cheapest land.
