noun
- a container that holds material and releases it through an opening at the bottom
- an insect that moves by jumping, especially a grasshopper
- a freight car with a hinged bottom for dumping bulk materials
Usage: railroad
Examples
- The grain hopper slowly emptied into the storage bin.
- She filled the seed hopper on the bird feeder.
- A small hopper jumped across the garden path.
- The coal hopper was loaded at the mine.
- The cement mixer’s hopper needed to be refilled.
- Green hoppers chirped in the tall grass.
- The train pulled several grain hoppers behind the engine.