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hopscotch (n.)

children's game, 1801 (from 1789 as hop-scot), apparently from hop (v.) + scotch (n.2) "scratch," from the lines scored in the dirt to make the squares for the game.

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Definitions of hopscotch from WordNet

hopscotch (n.)
a game in which a child tosses a stone into an area drawn on the ground and then hops through it and back to regain the stone;
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