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to movie hop

to movie hop

8.0
To watch more than one film at a cinema without paying for each
  • phrasal verb
  • NSFW
translation icon : ver varias películas
  • Last weekend, we movie hopped to see two different films back-to-back at the cinema.

Examples

  • It's more fun to movie hop when you can watch both the thriller and the animated feature in a single visit.

  • Dang when I tell you my mom was so mad after she found out that we movie hopped because my freaking sister Reese and her friend Ashlyn.

  • We decided to movie hop and catch both the latest action film and the romantic comedy in one evening.

Surface Forms

movie hop infinitive
movie hopped past
movie hopped past participle
movie hopping present participle
movie hops third person singular

Morphology

movie + hop

The meaning is directly composed from 'movie' + 'hop' in the same way as familiar compounds like 'bar-hop' or 'pub-hop' — 'hop' conveys moving between short visits, so a learner who knows both words can infer attending multiple films in one outing. Although the additional nuance about not paying for each screening is pragmatic and may not be fully explicit, the core sense (going from one screening to another) is transparently derivable from the constituents.

Etymology

Movie hop comes from the image of quietly hopping from one movie room to another between shows. That's why it means 'to see more than one film in one visit, often by moving from show to show without paying for each'.