planet-hopper n. 2

The new stuff you added to this ship converted it from an ordinary planet hopper to a star ship.

Stark was in a…planet-hopper on his way to pick up Tuchvar and the hounds.

The star buggy was a small ship—a totally misnamed one in fact, because the one thing it couldn’t manage was interstellar distances. Basically it was a sporty planet hopper dolled up to look like something it wasn’t.

Listen, Scrymmers, I sent, this hoardable you see in my hand is a weapon. There was no time for a lecture on the Lazmatic’s capabilities. Instead I demonstrated by frying the baby booties off Scuttlebutt’s shell, which had about the same effect as stealing somebody's custom planet-hopper.

You might get there a little short of fuel, Jason…. This ship’s strictly a planet hopper.

‘Say, you boys had anybody else take off in an interstellar bird tonight?’ ‘Just one, about a half an hour ago: a little planet hopper.’

The Nova’s Heart was equipped with a secondary shuttle—a prettier, glossier counterpart to the stubby little planet-hopper they’d arrived in.