Hop Definition
hŏp
hopped, hopping, hops
verb
hopped, hopping, hops
To move with light bounding skips or leaps.
American Heritage
To jump over.
To hop a fence.
Webster's New World
To move quickly or be busily active.
The shipping department is hopping this week.
American Heritage
To move by leaping or springing on both, or all, feet at once, as a bird, frog, etc. does.
Webster's New World
To get aboard.
To hop a train.
Webster's New World
noun
hops
An act or instance of hopping.
Webster's New World
A light springy jump or leap, especially on one foot or with both feet at the same time.
American Heritage
A rebound.
The ball took a bad hop.
American Heritage
A bounce, as of a baseball.
Webster's New World
A dance, esp. an informal one.
Webster's New World
abbreviation
High oxygen pressure.
American Heritage
affix
To go from one of a (specified) group or class of places or things to another or others in succession.
Table-hop, job-hopping.
Webster's New World
idiom
hop, skip, and (a) jump
- A short distance.
American Heritage
hop to it
- To begin an activity or a task quickly and energetically.
American Heritage
hop on
- to scold; reprimand
Webster's New World
hop to it
- to begin to do something briskly and vigorously
Webster's New World
hop up
- to stimulate by or as by a drug
- to supercharge (an automobile engine, etc.)
Webster's New World
Idioms, Phrasal Verbs Related to Hop
Origin of Hop
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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
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 Dutch hoppe.
From Wiktionary
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