Hopper

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Hopper or hoppers may refer to:

Mechanical parts

• A storage container used to dispense granular materials through the use of a chute to restrict flow, sometimes assisted by mechanical agitation
  • A paintball loader
• A storage container used to collect granular materials designed to easily dispense these materials through the use of gravity.
  • Part of an agricultural aircraft to store the chemicals to be spread
  • Part of a combine harvester
  • Part of a wheel tractor-scraper to store the soil load
  • Hopper (particulate collection container), a large container used for dust collection

Transportation

• Hopper (spacecraft), a proposed spacecraft
• 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, 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

Insects

• Leafhopper, a member of the family Cicadellidae
• Treehopper, a member of the family Membracidae (typical treehoppers) or Aetalionidae
• The immature form of a locust
• Grasshoppers

People, characters, and occupations

• Hopper (surname)
• Hopper, a character and the main antagonist in the Pixar animated film A Bug's Life
• one who harvests hops
• Urban entry-level drug dealers or drug dealers' aides—typically minors—are colloquially called hoppers.

Entertainment

• The Hoppers, a Southern Gospel family ensemble
• Hopper (band), English indie rock band
• Hoppers (game), peg solitaire game released by Think Fun
• Hopper (video game), a 1984 Frogger clone published by Acornsoft
• Hopper, a fairy chess piece
• Dish Hopper (DVR), a service of Dish Network known for its AutoHop commercial-skipping feature.

Others

• Hopper (company), a big-data start-up based in Cambridge, Massachusetts
• 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
• Hopper (food) or Appam or Aappam hoppers, a type of food in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Sri Lankan cuisine
• The bill hopper, 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
• a mountain and valley in the Hunza–Nagar District of Pakistan

See also

• Hop (disambiguation)
• HOP (disambiguation)
• Grasshopper (disambiguation)

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