lopes 1 of 2

present tense third-person singular of lope
as in hops
to move with a light springing step the jogger happily loped along, just enjoying the fresh morning air

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lopes

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noun

plural of lope

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Verb
  • The film, which tells the story of a 1980s teen who accidentally hops in a time machine and zooms back to 1955, first premiered in summer 1985.
    Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Observer, 21 Oct. 2025
  • Oftentimes, Tupac and Gault wound up whiling away lunch (and beyond) at the Old Town Mall, a run-down shopping center two hops and a skip from Dunbar.
    Jeff Pearlman, Rolling Stone, 17 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • The ball bounces in funny ways.
    Doug Haller, New York Times, 19 Oct. 2025
  • As the plot bounces along and characters appear, step offstage, and reappear, things get strange, and reality flickers in and out to dazzling effect.
    Jasmine Vojdani, Vulture, 7 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • Considering all three records, Thundercat says there are no skips.
    Charisma Madarang, Rolling Stone, 21 Oct. 2025
  • This is also the first time this has happened in the charts’ history; Swift controlled the top spots with Midnights and Tortured Poets Department, but the top spots did not include every song without skips.
    Alejandra Gularte, Vulture, 13 Oct. 2025
Verb
  • As my guide Nicolas Jeanroy preps his truffle gear, which looks like a collection of garden tools, his canine partner, Taïga, bounds up.
    Aislyn Greene, AFAR Media, 15 Oct. 2025
  • And speaking of guest stars doing all of the trio’s investigative work for them, Richard Kind then bounds into the room (as Richard Kinds are wont to do) with a huge development of his own.
    Tom Smyth, Vulture, 14 Oct. 2025
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“Lopes.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/lopes. Accessed 28 Oct. 2025.

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