Hopper Explained

Hopper or hoppers may refer to:

Places

• Hopper, Illinois
• Hopper, West Virginia
• Hopper, a mountain and valley in the Hunza–Nagar District of Pakistan
• Hopper (crater), a crater on Mercury

People

• 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
  • Hopper (particulate collection container), a large container used for dust collection
  • A paintball loader
  • A manufacturing line hopper
  • 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
  • Feeder (livestock equipment)

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
• Gravity wagon, or 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

Arts, entertainment, and media

Fictional entities

• Hopper, a character and the main antagonist in the 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
• Hopper 1, a Chemy in Kamen Rider Gotchard

Games

• Hoppers (game), a peg solitaire game released by Think Fun
• Hopper, multiple clones of the video game Frogger
• Hopper, a fairy chess piece

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 (microarchitecture), codename for a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia
• 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
• Hopper (company), a travel booking app and online travel marketplace that sells flights, hotels, rental cars, and short-term rentals.

See also

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