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hopscotch

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noun/ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ//ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/
  1. 1

    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.uncountable

    • No-one. Meade’s timberyard. Piled balks. Ruins and tenements. With careful tread he passed over a hopscotch court with its forgotten pickeystone.
verb/ˈhɑpˌskɑt͡ʃ//ˈhɒpˌskɒt͡ʃ/
  1. 1

    To move by hopping.figurativelyintransitive

    • As he hopscotched around the world on his Gulfstream IV — he got rid of his homes but kept his private plane — he found himself spending more and more time in Los Angeles, and he also rediscovered his interest in politics and philosophy.
  2. 2

    To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping.figurativelyintransitive

    • Although the events described hop-scotch back and forth in time, the story moves along in an orderly fasion ^([sic]) and is rarely rambling.

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