code-hoppingn.
/ˈkəʊdˌhɒpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkoʊdˌ(h)ɑpɪŋ/, Australian English /ˈkoʊdˌhɔpɪŋ/, New Zealand English /ˈkʌudˌhɒpɪŋ/ 1. In some types of remotely-operated alarm systems, esp. those used in cars: frequent changing from one signal code to another to prevent interception and unauthorized use.Frequently as a modifier.
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1994 Tucson (Arizona) Weekly 22 June 9/2 Code hopping never sends the same code twice! It changes every time you arm or disarm your alarm.
2009 Star (S. Afr.) (Nexis) 17 Jan. 5 Newer model car alarms were equipped with code-hopping technology.
2. Originally Australian and New Zealand. Switching from playing one form of football to another, esp. from rugby union to rugby league or vice versa.In quot. 1997 with reference to spectating, not playing.Sometimes in more general use with reference to other sports.
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1997 Sydney Morning Herald 16 June 13/3 ‘Code-hopping’ is one of these changes. Instead of aligning themselves with one code, as their parents probably did, more and more young Sydney people are patronising any code which happens to take their fancy.
2003 Sydney Morning Herald 21 Feb. 37/1 He still wants to spend five months with the Warriors and neither the club nor the NRL have any objections to his mid-season code-hopping.
2017 Nelson (N.Z.) Mail (Nexis) 13 May (Sport section) 22 Hunt warned his former State of Origin team-mate against the difficulties of code-hopping amid talk of a possible Super Rugby switch next year.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
code-hoppingadj.
/ˈkəʊdˌhɒpɪŋ/, U.S. /ˈkoʊdˌ(h)ɑpɪŋ/, Australian English /ˈkoʊdˌhɔpɪŋ/, New Zealand English /ˈkʌudˌhɒpɪŋ/ Originally Australian and New Zealand.
Of a sportsperson: that is in the process of switching, or that has switched, from playing one form of football to another, esp. from rugby union to rugby league or vice versa. Also of a career, period of time, etc.: that has featured such a switch.In quot. 1997 with reference to spectators, not players.Sometimes in more general use with reference to other sports; cf. quot. 1999.
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1997 Sydney Morning Herald 16 June 13/7 ‘Theatre-goers’, a term which AFL club supporters in Melbourne have begun applying dismissively to people who attend AFL games on a casual basis... On July 26 the MCG will be full of code-hopping ‘theatre-goers’.
1999 Waikato Times (Hamilton, N.Z.) 17 Apr. (Sport section) 10 (headline) It's touchdown and go for code-hopping Coffin... She..will use the warmup games tomorrow and Monday against Sydney and Australian regional sides to switch from netball to touch mode.
2008 Courier Mail (Austral.) (Nexis) 10 May (Sport section) 126 His code-hopping career hits another landmark tonight when he returns to Suncorp Stadium as a rugby union lock.
2019 Guardian (Nexis) 11 Apr. (Sport section) Since switching to rugby union in 2013, the code-hopping star of the oval ball..has undoubtedly been the highest profile player in the game.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2020; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.1994adj.1997