How to pronounce spyhop
American English pronunciation
SPY-hop
- IPA
- /ˈspaɪˌhɑp/
- Syllables
- SPY · hop (2 syllables, stress on the 1st)
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What spyhop means
To poke the head up out of water to look, as whales do
In a sentence: We watched a whale spyhop next to our boat to see what we were doing.
Where it comes from: It joins spy and hop, because the whale pops straight up to take a look around.
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