barhop

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English

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Etymology

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From bar (drinking establishment) +‎ hop (move rapidly between locations).

Verb

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barhop (third-person singular simple present barhops, present participle barhopping, simple past and past participle barhopped)

  1. (idiomatic, informal) To drink at a number of bars during a single day or evening.
    • 2009, David Ellis Dickerson, House of Cards:
      If you came in thinking masculinity was inherently hostile to women, you were very likely to pick up hostility from this professor—not because it was there, but because the guylike behaviors of liking sports, barhopping, watching action movies, talking about cars, and such were all deeply ingrained in him []