hop-skip
- v jump lightly
- A hardly avoidable consequence of this hop-skip-and-fly journalism was that Reporter Gunther frequently fell into glibness and superficiality.
- Railroad passengers who have long endured the lurching promiscuity of the open-section sleeper, the hop-skip--jump down the leg-barred aisle of a club car or the dubious amenities .
- Wildly exciting to Japanese is each fresh leap by their industry in its hop-skip--skid race to overtake the West.