hop
intransitive verb hopped, hopping
- to make a short leap or leaps on one foot
- to move by leaping or springing on both, or all, feet at once, as a bird, frog, etc. does
- Informal
- to go or move briskly or in bounces
- to take a short, quick trip: with up, down, or over
transitive verb
- to jump over: to hop a fence
- ☆ to get aboard: to hop a train
- Informal to fly over in an airplane
noun
- an act or instance of hopping
- ☆ a bounce, as of a baseball
- Informal a dance, esp. an informal one
- Informal a short flight in an airplane
noun
- a rough twining vine (Humulus lupulus) of the hemp family, having the female flowers borne in small cones covered with bladdery bracts
- the dried ripe cones of the female flowers, used for giving beer, ale, etc., a bitter taste and in medicine as a sedative
- ☆ Slang a narcotic drug; esp., opium
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