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Meaning of hopper

- One who, or that which, hops.
- 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.
- See Grasshopper, 2.
- A game. See Hopscotch.
- See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree.
- The larva of a cheese fly.
- 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.

Crossword clue for hopper

- Frog or rabbit, e.g.
- Frog or rabbit, eg
- Jumping insect
- Large container