crow-hopv.
intransitive. To hop like a crow; also figurative (see quot. 1897). Also as n., a hopping movement like that of a crow.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > hop > like a crow
crow-hop1897
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > hopping > a hop > like a crow
crow-hop1897
1897 Chicago Tribune 25 July 15/2 Crow Hop, to ‘craw~fish’. ‘Leedy has crow hopped out of the special session of the Legislature.’
1903 Wide World Mag. Apr. 548 The ways they try to throw their riders may be classed under three heads. The first is known as the crow-hop.
1907 S. E. White Arizona Nights (U.K. ed.) i. xiv. 207 Sometimes we crow-hopped solemnly around and around the prostrate Schwartz.
1944 R. F. Adams Western Words 45 Crow hop, when a horse jumps about with arched back and stiffened knees at a pretense of bucking.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1933; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
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