joyhop

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noun

A flight taken for pleasure.

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Meanings

nounjoyhop (plural joyhops)

plural joyhops

  1. aeronauticsA flight taken for pleasure.

    Compared to making both ends of the country meet back in those days, flying the “Hump” was just a joyhop.

    1952, American Aviation, volume 16, page 67
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    He was ready to demonstrate it last month when his test pilot, Marshall S. ("Maury") Boggs, who had made innumerable blind landings, crashed to death in broad daylight on a joyhop in California.

    1933, Briton Hadden, Time, volume 21, page 29
verbjoyhop (third-person singular simple present joyhops, present participle joyhopping, simple past and past participle joyhopped)

present singular third person joyhops · participle present joyhopping · participle past joyhopped · past joyhopped

  1. aeronauticsTo fly for pleasure.

Origin

From joy + hop.

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APA

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MLA

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Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “joyhop,” accessed November 3, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/joyhop.

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