1. a container that holds material and releases it through an opening at the bottom
2. an insect that moves by jumping, especially a grasshopper
3. 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.