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Hopper

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Hopper or hoppers may refer to:

Places

  • Hopper, Illinois
  • Hopper, West Virginia
  • Hopper, a mountain and valley in the Hunza–Nagar District of Pakistan

People with the name

  • Hopper (surname)

Insects

  • Hopper, the immature form of a locust
  • Grasshopper
  • Hoppers, butterflies of the genus Platylesches
  • Leafhopper, a member of the family Cicadellidae
  • Treehopper, a member of the family Membracidae (typical treehoppers) or Aetalionidae

Mechanical parts

  • Hopper, a storage container used to dispense granular materials through the use of a chute to restrict flow, sometimes assisted by mechanical agitation

Science and technology

  • Hopper (microarchitecture), codename for a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia

Transportation

  • Hopper (spacecraft), a proposed spacecraft
  • Hopper, a prototype test vehicle for the SpaceX Starship
  • 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, or gravity wagon, a type of wagon that is essentially a hopper; used in agriculture
  • Space hopper, a toy: a ball with handles for bouncing on
  • USS Hopper, a U.S. Navy destroyer

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

  • Hopper, a character and the main antagonist in the Pixar animated film A Bug's Life
  • H.O.P.P.E.R.S. or Hoppers, the nickname of the fictional Huerta, California, from Jaime Hernandez's Locas graphic novels published in Love and Rockets
  • Franz Hopper, a character in Code Lyoko
  • Jim Hopper (Stranger Things), the police chief from the Netflix science-fiction horror series Stranger Things

Games

  • Hopper (video game), a 1984 Frogger clone published by Acornsoft
  • Hopper, a fairy chess piece
  • Hoppers (game), a peg solitaire game released by Think Fun

Music

  • Hopper (band), English indie rock band
  • The Hoppers, a Southern Gospel family ensemble

Other uses in arts, entertainment, and media

  • Dish Hopper (DVR), a service of Dish Network known for its AutoHop commercial-skipping feature

Other uses

  • Hopper (food) or Appam or Aappam hoppers, a type of food in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Sri Lankan cuisine
  • Hopper, one who harvests hops
  • Hopper, a Lindy Hop dancer
  • Hopper, an urban entry-level drug dealer or drug dealer's aide—typically a minor
  • Bill hopper, a 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 crystal, a type of crystal formation shaped like a hopper wagon

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