Hopper
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Hopper may refer to:
[edit] Mechanical parts
- A general term for a chute with additional width and depth for temporary storage
- Hopper (particulate collection container), a large container used for dust collection
- Part of a combine harvester
- A storage container used to dispense granular materials through the use of gravity, sometimes assisted by mechanical agitation, an example is a paintball loader
[edit] Transportation
- Hopper (spacecraft), a proposed spacecraft
- Hopper balloon, a kind of ultralight hot air balloon
- Hopper barge, a kind of barge
- Hopper car, a type of railway freight car
- Slant wagon, a type of wagon that is essentially a hopper; used in agriculture.
- Space hopper, a self powered mode of transportation.
- USS Hopper, a U.S. Navy destroyer
[edit] Insects
- Leafhopper, a member of the family Cicadellidae
- Treehopper, a member of the family Membracidae (typical treehoppers) or Aetalionidae
- The immature form of a locust
- Grasshoppers
[edit] People with the surname Hopper
- Andy Hopper (born 1953), British computer scientist
- Dennis Hopper (1936–2010), American actor
- DeWolf Hopper (1858–1935), American actor, singer, comedian and producer
- Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American painter and printmaker
- Franz Hopper, fictional character in Code Lyoko
- Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American computer scientist and naval officer
- Hedda Hopper (1885–1966), American actress and gossip columnist
- Hugh Hopper (1945—2009), English guitarist and composer
- Isaac Hopper (1771–1852), American abolitionist and underground railroad pioneer
- Josephine Hopper (1883–1968), American artist and wife of Edward Hopper
- Kev Hopper (born 1961), musician
- Max Hopper (1934–2010), an American IT manager
- Paul Hopper, American linguist of British birth
- Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell (1886–1985), American artist best known for Hawaiian themes
- Stephen Hopper (born 1951), Australian botanist denoted by the author abbreviation "Hopper" when citing a botanical name
- Thomas Hopper (1776–1856), English architect
- Tom Hopper (born 1985), English actor
- Wilbert Hopper (1933–2006), Canadian business executive
- William Hopper (1915–1970), American actor
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[edit] Other
- one who harvests hops
- Hopper (food) or Appam or Aappam hoppers, a type of food in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Sri Lankan cuisine
- fairy chess piece
- The Hoppers, a Southern Gospel group
- The bill hopper, wooden box on the desk of the Clerk of the United States House of Representatives in which bills or resolutions to be voted on are deposited
- Hopper, the primary antagonist in Disney's animanted film A Bug's Life
- a mountain and valley in the Hunza-Nagar District of Pakistan
- Hopper crystal, a type of crystal formation shaped like a hopper wagon
- Urban entry-level drug dealers or drug dealers' aides –typically minors– are colloquially called hoppers. [1][2]
- Hopper Inc., a travel-oriented search engine company
[edit] See also
[edit] Notes and references
- ^ http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=hopper&defid=1437118
- ^ The TV series The Wire includes depictions of a number of hoppers.
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