Definition of "hop-step-and-jump" []

• An athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement (noun)

WordNet. Princeton University. 2010.

• "I will call for these Richardsons when I go back to Haddington: I like their hop-step-and-jump over ceremony, their oblivion in the enthusiasm of the moment that we had 'belonged to different circles'"
• "A deceased friend, who was a fellow-apprentice with me, used often to express his surprise that, after such a hop-step-and-jump perusal, I knew as much of the book as he had been able to acquire from reading it in the usual manner."