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table-hop in American English (ˈteɪbəlˌhɑp) US verb intransitiveWord forms: ˈtable-ˌhopped or ˈtable-ˌhopping to leave one's table in a restaurant, nightclub, etc. and visit about at other tables Derived forms table-hopper (ˈtable-ˌhopper) noun table-hop in American English (ˈteibəlˌhɑp) intransitive verbWord forms: -hopped, -hoppinginformal to move about in a restaurant, nightclub, or the like, chatting with people at various tables Derived forms table-hopper noun Word origin [1940–45; table + hop1]This word is first recorded in the period 1940–45. Other words that entered Englishat around the same time include: airlift, blockbuster, set-aside, snorkel, updateExamples of 'table-hop' in a sentencetable-hop The volume of nursery-squealing was like flocking starlings; it was a mass table-hop murmuration — with nothing to eat. |