To go a hopper, verb. phr. (sporting).—To go quickly.
Hopper-arsed (or Hipped), adj. (old).—Large in the breech. Also (as in quot. 1529) snaggy-boned. Also as subs.
d. 1529. Dunbar, Poems, ‘Complaint to the King’ (1836, i., 144). With hopper-hippis and hanches narrow.
1672. Wycherley, Love in a Wood, ii., 1. Moreover, she is bow-legged, hopper-hipped, and, betwixt pomatum and Spanish red, has a complexion like a Holland cheese.
1690. B. E., Dict. Cant. Crew, s.v. Hopper-arst, when the Breach sticks out.
1704. King, Orpheus and Eurydice (Chalmers, English Poets), vol. ix., p. 284. A lady of prodigious fame, Whose hollow eyes and hopper breech Made common people call her witch.
1719. Durfey, Pills, etc., vi., 351. And there’ll be hopper-arsed Nancy.
1785. Grose, Vulg. Tongue, s.v.
Hopper-docker, subs. (old).—A shoe. For synonyms, see Trotter-cases.
Hop-picker, subs. (common).—1. A prostitute; also Hopping-wife. For synonyms, see Barrack-hack and Tart.