Hop meaning
Hop a ditch two feet wide.
Hop a freight train.
To hop a fence.
To hop a train.
Table-hop, job-hopping.
Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.
The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.
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.
We were party-hopping all weekend.
We had to island hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
An example of a hop is a frog's tiny jump from one pebble to the next.
An example of to hop is to jump from one square of a hopscotch board to another.
Party-hop.
- A short distance.
- To begin an activity or a task quickly and energetically.
- To scold; reprimand.
- To begin to do something briskly and vigorously.
- To stimulate by or as by a drug.
- To supercharge (an automobile engine, etc.).
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