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The word hopper can mean:

• A wide bin-like entry to feed large bulks of solid matter into a machine. It is open above, and tapers, being thinner at the bottom where it feeds into the mechanism, e.g. Often refers to hoppers used in paintball markers, which house and feed paint balls into the marker.
• In agriculture, a hopper on a combine is a tank or bin where the harvested grain is temporarily stored until it is unloaded to a truck or grain cart. A hopper on an agricultural aircraft is a tank inside the fuselage used to hold superphosphate or other chemicals for airborne application over crops or pasture.
• In aviation, a hopper is a one person, basket-less ultralight hot air balloon.
• In biology, the immature form or nymph of a locust, but sometimes also referring to leafhoppers and treehoppers. Large groups of these nymphs are called hopper bands.
• In chess variants, a hopper is a piece which moves by jumping over another piece.
• In football, a supporter of the Grasshopper-Club Zürich.
• In politics, in the United States House of Representatives, the hopper is the box which sits on the House Clerk's desk, into which a bill or resolution is dropped for introduction.
• In ship transportation, a hopper is a ship or vessel to carry the dumping materials (like rock, sand, soil or rubbish) to fill up the sea, river or lake for lands by reclamation methods.
• In Sri Lankan cuisine a hopper is a food, used most frequently for breakfast.
• In transportation, a type of goods railway wagon for carrying bulk solids. See hopper car for open-topped cars or covered hopper for cars with a roof.
• Hopper, a spacecraft.
• Hopper, cat
• Hopper, a part of power plants.
• Hopper, the band.
• Hopper is the name of a wolf and minor character in Robert Jordan's The Wheel of Time series.
• USS Hopper (DDG 70), an Arleigh Burke class destroyer of the United States Navy.

People named Hopper:

• Andy Hopper (1953—), British computer scientist
• Several Southern Gospel musicians and singers: Paul Hopper, Bill Hopper, Claud Hopper, Connie Hopper, Dean Hopper, Kim Greene Hopper
• Dennis Hopper (1936—), American actor
• DeWolf Hopper (1858–1935), American actor, singer, and comedian
• Edward Hopper (1882–1967), American artist
• Grace Hopper (1906–1992), American naval officer and computer pioneer
• Heather Hopper (1976–-), American actress
• Hedda Hopper (1885–1966), American actress and gossip columnist
• Hugh Hopper (1945—) English bass guitarist, formerly of Soft Machine
• Isaac Hopper (1771–1852), American abolitionist, underground railroad pioneer
• Josephine Hopper (1883–1968), American artist and wife of Edward Hopper
• Nicholas J. Hopper (contemporary), American assistant professor
• Shirley Ximena Hopper Russell (1886-1985), American artist
• Thomas Hopper (1776–1856), English architect
• William Hopper (1915–1970), American actor

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