hopper Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun funnel-shaped receptacle; contents pass by gravity into a receptacle below
  2. noun someone who hops
    • at hopscotch, the best hoppers are the children
  3. noun a machine used for picking hops
    hop-picker.
  4. noun terrestrial plant-eating insect with hind legs adapted for leaping
    grasshopper.
  5. noun (baseball) a hit that travels along the ground
    grounder; ground ball; groundball.

WordNet

Hop"per noun
Etymology
See 1st Hop.
Definitions
  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; 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.
  3. (Mus.) See Grasshopper, 2.
  4. pl. A game. See Hopscotch. Johnson.
  5. (Zoöl.) (a) See Grasshopper, and Frog hopper, Grape hopper, Leaf hopper, Tree hopper, under Frog, Grape, Leaf, and Tree. (b) The larva of a cheese fly.
  6. (Naut.) 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.

Webster 1913