hopper: Meaning and Definition of

hop•per

1. a person or thing that hops.
2. a person who travels or moves frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): a two-week tour designed for energetic city-hoppers.
3. any of various jumping insects, as grasshoppers or leafhoppers.
4. kangaroo.
5. a funnel-shaped chamber or bin in which loose material, as grain or coal, is stored temporarily, being filled through the top and dispensed through the bottom.
6. See
7. a box into which a proposed legislative bill is dropped and thereby officially introduced.
8. one of the pieces at each side of a hopper casement.
9. in preparation; about to be realized: Plans for the class reunion are in the hopper.

Hop•per

1. 1882–1967, U.S. painter and etcher.
2. 1906–92, U.S. naval officer and computer scientist.
3. 1858–1935, U.S. actor.