hopscotch · noun — A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.
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hopscotch is pronounced /ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ/.
Etymology
From hop + scotch (“scratch”).
noun
- A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.e.g.“No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.” — 1922 February, James Joyce, “[Episode 5]”, in Ulysses, Paris: Shakespeare and Company, […], →OCLC:
verb
- To move by hopping.
- To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping.e.g.“Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling.” — 1979 April 28, Pat M. Kuras, “Connecting With Women”, in Gay Community News, page 15:
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