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What (who) is channel-hop - definition
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
HOP; Hop (disambiguation); HOP (disambiguation)
channel-hop
¦ verb informal
1. change frequently from one television channel to another, using a remote control device.
2. make frequent or brief trips across the English Channel and back to Britain.
Derivatives
channel-hopper noun
Sock hop
![Sock hop at [[Shimer College]], Illinois, in 1948](https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Shimer College Sox Hop 1948.jpg?width=200 "Sock hop at [[Shimer College]], Illinois, in 1948")
INFORMAL SPONSORED DANCE EVENT FOR TEENAGERS
Record hop; Soc Hop; Soc hop; Record Hop; Sock hops; Sock Hop; Sox hop; Sock-hop; Sockhop
A sock hop or sox hop, often also called a record hop or just a hop, was an informal sponsored dance event for teenagers in mid-20th-century North America, featuring popular music.
channel hopping
<chat> To rapidly switch channels on IRC, or a GEnie chat
board. This term may derive from the TV idiom, "channel
surfing".
[Jargon File ]
(1994-11-29)
Wikipedia
Hop
Examples of use of channel-hop
1. However doggedly you channel–hop, you won‘t find them standing under umbrellas on Downing Street.
2. But there‘s a fine line between intimacy and voyeurism, and you can never quite escape the sensation that you‘re only a channel–hop away from Big Brother‘s diary room.