Usually means: Children's game involving hopping, squares.
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We found 31 dictionaries that define the word hopscotch:

General (26 matching dictionaries)
  1. hopscotch: Merriam-Webster
  2. hopscotch: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. hopscotch: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. hopscotch: Collins English Dictionary
  5. hopscotch: Vocabulary.com
  6. Hopscotch, hopscotch: Wordnik
  7. hopscotch: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. hopscotch: Wiktionary
  9. hopscotch: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. hopscotch: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. hopscotch: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Hopscotch, hopscotch: Dictionary.com
  13. hopscotch: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Hopscotch (Brian Garfield novel), Hopscotch (company), Hopscotch (disambiguation), Hopscotch (film), Hopscotch (programming language), Hopscotch: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Hopscotch: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. hopscotch: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. hopscotch: Rhymezone
  18. Hopscotch: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. HOPSCOTCH: Dictionary of Americanisms (1848)
  20. hopscotch: FreeDictionary.org
  21. hopscotch: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. Hopscotch: The Word Detective
  23. hopscotch: TheFreeDictionary.com
  24. hopscotch: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. hopscotch: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Brilliant Dream Dictionary (No longer online)

Slang (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. hopscotch, hopscotch: Green’s Dictionary of Slang
  2. Hopscotch: Urban Dictionary

Sports (1 matching dictionary)
  1. 2060 Shadow-Slang (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
▸ noun:  (playground games) A child's game, in which a player, hopping on one foot, drives a stone from one compartment to another of a figure traced or scotched on the ground.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To move by hopping.
▸ verb:  (intransitive, figuratively) To move back and forth between adjacent patterns by or as if by hopping.

Similar:
peevers, hopper, hacky sack, stabscotch, stoopball, Hacky-Sack, shufflepuck, horseshoes, hop and bop, Hampole, more...

Opposite:
leapfrog, tag, hide-and-seek

Adjectives:
outside, geography, inferential, literary, mental, american


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Similar:
peevers, hopper, hacky sack, stabscotch, stoopball, Hacky-Sack, shufflepuck, horseshoes, hop and bop, Hampole, more...

Opposite:
leapfrog, tag, hide-and-seek

Adjectives:
outside, geography, inferential, literary, mental, american



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