Hop definition
To jump on one foot or with both feet at the same time.
verb
To travel or move often from place to place. Often used in combination.
Party-hop.
verb
A light springy jump or leap, especially on one foot or with both feet at the same time.
noun
A free ride; a lift.
noun
The definition of a hop is a short leap or bounce.
An example of a hop is a frog's tiny jump from one pebble to the next.
noun
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Hop is defined as to make a short leap or bounce.
An example of to hop is to jump from one square of a hopscotch board to another.
verb
(informal) To move quickly or be busily active.
The shipping department is hopping this week.
verb
To move over by hopping.
Hop a ditch two feet wide.
verb
(informal) To get on (a train) surreptitiously in order to ride without paying a fare.
Hop a freight train.
verb
(informal) A dance or dance party.
noun
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A rebound.
The ball took a bad hop.
noun
A short distance.
noun
A short trip, especially by air.
noun
A twining vine (Humulus lupulus) having lobed leaves and green female flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
noun
The dried female inflorescences of this plant, containing a bitter aromatic oil. They are used in brewing to inhibit bacterial growth and to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer.
noun
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(slang) Opium.
noun
To flavor with hops.
verb
High oxygen pressure.
abbreviation
To make a short leap or leaps on one foot.
verb
To move by leaping or springing on both, or all, feet at once, as a bird, frog, etc. does.
verb
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To go or move briskly or in bounces.
verb
To take a short, quick trip.
verb
To jump over.
To hop a fence.
verb
To get aboard.
To hop a train.
verb
(informal) To fly over in an airplane.
verb
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An act or instance of hopping.
noun
A bounce, as of a baseball.
noun
(informal) A dance, esp. an informal one.
noun
(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.
noun
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The dried ripe cones of the female flowers, used for giving beer, ale, etc., a bitter taste and in medicine as a sedative.
noun
(slang) A narcotic drug; esp., opium.
noun
To flavor or treat with hops.
verb
To go from one of a (specified) group or class of places or things to another or others in succession.
Table-hop, job-hopping.
affix
A small, quick jump.
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In networks, the journey a signal makes across a transmission link between two devices such as bridges, hubs, switches, or routers.There often are multiple links in an endto-end circuit between two devices. Therefore, a frame may make multiple hops as it transverses a physical path from one workstation to another. An IP packet typically makes a significant number of hops as it transverses the Internet. See also bridge, circuit, frame, hub, Internet, LAN, link, packet, router, and switch.
In radio communications, one skip of a radio wave from an earth station to the ionosphere and back. See also ionosphere, radio, and waveform.
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A jump on one leg.
noun
(intransitive) To jump on one foot.
verb
(intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.
Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.
The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.
verb
To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.
He hopped a train to California.
verb
(intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
We were party-hopping all weekend.
We had to island hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
verb
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To dance.
verb
(usually plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
noun
To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer.
verb
To move with light bounding skips or leaps.
verb
To make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.
verb
hop, skip, and (a) jump
- A short distance.
idiom
hop to it
- To begin an activity or a task quickly and energetically.
idiom
hop on
- to scold; reprimand
idiom
hop to it
- to begin to do something briskly and vigorously
idiom
hop up
- to stimulate by or as by a drug
- to supercharge (an automobile engine, etc.)
idiom
Idioms and Phrasal Verbs
Origin of hop
- Middle English hoppen from Old English hoppian
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Middle English hoppe from Middle Dutch
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”). Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).
From Wiktionary
- From Middle Dutch hoppe.
From Wiktionary