hoppy, chop, brinicle, mugger. Clean rooms, a vital part of semiconductor factories, are showing up in Japanese universities, where aspiring tech innovators conduct research.

Clean rooms, a vital part of semiconductor factories, are showing up in Japanese universities, where aspiring tech innovators conduct research.

The Russian vice-consul shot dead the armed mugger who had tried to hold him up in his car


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This is a brinicle forming, a.k.a ice finger of death. It freezes everything it touches.


A brinicle is a frozen column of ice inside water. Learn more about the brinicles and the filming of this extraordinary event:http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017

The boom in craft beers has sparked a hop farming renaissance in upstate New York

New York Farms Get Hoppy

New York hops fetch higher prices—$12 to $18 per pound—than those grown in the Pacific Northwest

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Pronunciation: /hɒp /

NOUN

1A twining climbing plant native to north temperateregions, cultivated for the flowers borne by the femaleplant, which are used in brewing beer.

• Humulus lupulus, family Cannabaceae (orCannabidaceae)

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1.1(hops) The dried cone-like flowers of the hop, used in brewing to give a bitter flavour and as amild sterilant.

1.2(hops) Australian /NZ informal Beer.

1.3[MASS NOUN] US informal , dated A narcotic drug, especially opium.

VERB (hops, hopping, hopped)

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1[WITH OBJECT] Flavour with hops:a strong dark beer, heavily hopped

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2(be hopped up) informal Be stimulated or intoxicated by or as if by a narcotic drug:most muggers were hopped up on coke or angel dusthe was very much hopped up about the concerto

Origin

late middle english hoppe (in the sense 'ripened hop cones for flavouring malt liquor'), from Middle Low German or Middle Dutch.

Derivatives

hoppy

ADJECTIVE (hoppier, hoppiest)

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• Another curious ad on a bus shelter: Summit Beer has a new brand called ‘Grand’ - it's a cheerful beer for the Bud crowd, the people who find hoppy beers too bitter, too harsh, too unbeery.
• Less strong than Shephard Neame's flagship Bishop's Finger at 4.7 per cent, Spitfire is a full-bodied, rounded, clean beer with a hoppy flavour which is served at its best just below room temperature.
• In pre-filled flagons, they had Parrot & Jigger's two Katipo Pale Ales - go for their stronger Pale Ale as it's still easy to drink and more hoppy, herbaceous and spicy in the flavour.

mugger 1 

Pronunciation: /ˈmʌɡə/ 

NOUN

A person who attacks and robs another in a public place:a woman was punched in the face by muggers who snatched a gold chain and pendant

chop
n.

1. The act of chopping.
2. 1. A swift, short, cutting blow or stroke.
   2. Sports. A short downward stroke.
3. A piece that has been chopped off, especially a cut of meat, usually taken from the rib, shoulder, or loin and containing a bone.
4. 1. A short irregular motion of waves.
   2. An area of choppy water, as on an ocean.