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Today I watched a YouTube video in which two people played a game, one person jumped, and the other said “whoa, you’ve got hops!”

At the time I took it literally, but now I see you saying the she same thing and am forced to wonder: is that a thing? I ask sincerely, not with derision.

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sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
Uh yeah, maybe its a but outdated of slang now, but … ‘you’ve got hops’ is basically ‘you can jump high’.

Hops is … I guess just older, 90s/00s, Millenial slang for ‘jumping ability/prowess/skill’, something like that.

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- toynbee@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
  Interesting. I could extrapolate the meaning, but I’m a bit older than your description of “outdated” and have never heard it in that context before. Perhaps j was just too unpopular to hear it.
  
  Thanks for the edification!
  
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  - sp3ctr4l@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Oops, I assumed you were Gen Z or A!
    
    Uh, uh,… radical, tubular, or something, lol.
    
    … Groovy?
    
    lol.
    
    Yeah, there’s a lot of fairly age specific lingo in all age brackets… and its possible the ‘mad hops’ phrasing also had a regional component that I just never noticed due to not travelling to many other parts of the US as a kid?
    
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    SeptugenarianSenate@leminal.space ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    I had heard of it as a millennial-Z cusp child from the central midwest US. “Mad hops” was when we were really hamming up our props to each other, and “hops” just meant you could jump high, possibly making it look effortless.
    
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  - Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago
    Millennial here. I’ve never heard it either. /shrug.
    
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