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hippety-hop
verb as in skip
verb as in spring
Example Sentences
“That ain’t music,” they say, “Like the hits in our day, Long before your dang hippety-hop.”
After Marjanovic fouled Stephenson on the play, he did a hippety-hop toward the baseline and then went into his gyration.
Or Scherzer could hit his first career home run, hippety-hop around the bases in amazement, yet minutes later wince in pain and take himself out of the game after just one inning because of neck spasms.
With many hands to help, the packages were soon in place, and then the Guide said: “We will all stand in a circle about the umbrella and as I swing it about we sing: “Merrily in this Council Ring, Dancing gayly as we sing, What will this umbrella bring When we change to hippety-hop And our Chief calls out to stop?”
“We can dance any step we like, but the moment I call out ‘Change!’ you all have to change your steps to a hippety-hop step; then when Zan calls out ‘Stop’ you have to stop short where you are.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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