Hopper or hoppers may refer to:

Places

Hopper, West Virginia Hopper is an unincorporated community in Greenbrier County, West Virginia, United States. Hopper is located along the Greenbrier River The Greenbrier River is a tributary of the New River, long,McNeel, William P. "Greenbrier River." ''The W ...

* Hopper, a mountain and valley in the

Hunza–Nagar District The Hunza–Nagar District is a former district of Gilgit–Baltistan in Pakistan. In July 2015, the district was divided into two separate districts, namely Hunza District and Nagar District. Education According to the ''Alif Ailaan Pakistan Di ...

of Pakistan *

Hopper (crater) Hopper is a crater on Mercury. Its name was adopted by the IAU in 2012, after the American painter Edward Hopper. Hollows are present within Hopper, which are as bright as the crater Kuiper Kuiper is a Dutch occupational surname meaning coo ...

, a crater on Mercury

People with the name

Hopper (surname) ''Hopper'' is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: People * Ailish Hopper, American poet * Alan Hopper (born 1937), English footballer *Andrew Hopper (1948–2018), British solicitor *Andy Hopper (born 1953), British computer scienti ...

* Grace Hopper

Insects

* Hopper, the immature form of a locust *

Grasshopper Grasshoppers are a group of insects belonging to the suborder Caelifera. They are among what is possibly the most ancient living group of chewing herbivorous insects, dating back to the early Triassic around 250 million years ago. Grasshopp ...

* Hoppers, butterflies of the genus ''

Platylesches ''Platylesches'' is a genus of skipper butterflies in the family Hesperiidae Skippers are a family of the Lepidoptera (moths and butterflies) named the Hesperiidae. Being diurnal, they are generally called butterflies. They were previously pl ...

'' *

Leafhopper A leafhopper is the common name for any species from the family Cicadellidae. These minute insects, colloquially known as hoppers, are plant feeders that suck plant sap from grass, shrubs, or trees. Their hind legs are modified for jumping, and a ...

, 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 Manufacturing is the creation or production of goods with the help of equipment, labor, machines, tools, and chemical or biological processing or formulation. It is the essence of secondary sector of the economy. The term may refer to a r ...

line hopper ** Part of an agricultural aircraft to store the chemicals to be spread ** Part of a

combine harvester The modern combine harvester, or simply combine, is a versatile machine designed to efficiently harvest a variety of grain crops. The name derives from its combining four separate harvesting operations—reaping, threshing, gathering, and winnow ...

** Part of a

wheel tractor-scraper In civil engineering, a wheel tractor-scraper (also known as a Tournapull) is a type of heavy equipment used for earthmoving. It has a pan/hopper for loading and carrying material. The pan has a tapered horizontal front cutting edge that cuts in ...

to store the soil load **

Feeder (livestock equipment) A feeder, is a feed holder, such as fixed holder or trailer-mounted hopper, delivering feed or fodder to cattle, sheep, horses and other livestock. See also * Manger __NOTOC__ A manger or trough is a rack for fodder, or a structure or feed ...

Transportation

Hopper (spacecraft) Hopper was a proposed European Space Agency (ESA) orbital spaceplane and reusable launch vehicle. The Hopper was a FESTIP (Future European Space Transportation Investigations Programme) system study design. Hopper was one of several proposals ...

, a proposed spacecraft * Hopper, a prototype test vehicle for the SpaceX Starship * Hopper balloon, a kind of ultralight hot air balloon *

Hopper barge A hopper barge is a kind of non-mechanical ship or vessel that cannot move around by itself, unlike some other types of barges, that is designed to carry materials, like rocks, sand, soil and rubbish, for dumping into the ocean, a river or lake ...

, a kind of barge * Hopper car, a type of railway freight car *

Gravity wagon The gravity wagon, or slant wagon, is an angled hopper style wagon that utilizes gravity to make the unloading process easier. It is primarily used on farms for agricultural purposes, such as for holding crops or fertilizer. For easy comparison, i ...

, 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''

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 The Hoppers (until 1981: Hopper Brothers and Connie) are a multi award-winning Southern Gospel group from North Carolina. They have performed together for several decades and have achieved significant popularity due to widening the playing field ...

, 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) Appam is a type of thin pancake originating from South India. It is made with fermented rice batter and coconut milk, traditionally cooked in an ''appachatti'', a deep pan similar in shape to a wok. It is common in the cusine of Kerala and Tam ...

or Appam or Aappam hoppers, a type of food in Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Sri Lankan cuisine *

Hopper (microarchitecture) Hopper is the codename for Nvidia's GPU Datacenter microarchitecture that will be parallel release of Ada Lovelace (for the consumer segment). It is named after the American computer scientist and United States Navy Rear Admiral Grace Hopper. Ho ...

, codename for a microarchitecture developed by Nvidia * Hopper, one who harvests

hops Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant ''Humulus lupulus'', a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. They are used primarily as a bittering, flavouring, and stability agent in beer, to whi ...

* 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