joyhop
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Noun
[edit]joyhop (plural joyhops)
- (aviation) A flight taken for pleasure.
- 1933, Briton Hadden, Time, volume 21, page 29:
- He was ready to demonstrate it last month when his test pilot, Marshall S. ("Maury") Boggs, who had made innumerable blind landings, crashed to death in broad daylight on a joyhop in California.
- 1952, American Aviation, volume 16, page 67:
- Compared to making both ends of the country meet back in those days, flying the “Hump” was just a joyhop.
Verb
[edit]joyhop (third-person singular simple present joyhops, present participle joyhopping, simple past and past participle joyhopped)
- (aviation) To fly for pleasure.