hop

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɒp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑp/

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”).

hop (plural hops)

1. A short jump.

   The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.

2. A jump on one leg.
3. A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
4. (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
5. (US, dated) A dance.
6. (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.

hop (third-person singular simple present hops, present participle hopping, simple past and past participle hopped)

1. (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
   • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V

     When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.

   Synonyms: jump, leap

2. (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
3. (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.

4. (transitive) 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.

5. (transitive) To jump onto, or over
   • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic‎, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 1049714034, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:

     They hop the curb and cut their engines.

6. (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.

7. (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.

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8. To dance.

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From Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô. Cognate with German Hopfen and French houblon.

hop (plural hops)

1. The plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed.
2. (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
3. (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 177:

     ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’

4. The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.

hop (third-person singular simple present hops, present participle hopping, simple past and past participle hopped)

1. (transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer

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2. (intransitive) To gather hops.

• OHP, PHO, POH, Pho, pOH, pho, poh

From Old Norse hopp (“jump”).

• IPA^(key): /hɔp/, [hʌb̥]

hop n (singular definite hoppet, plural indefinite hop)

1. jump

See hoppe.

• IPA^(key): /hɔp/, [hʌb̥]

hop

1. imperative of hoppe

• IPA^(key): /ɦɔp/
• Hyphenation: hop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

From Middle Dutch hoppe.

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

1. hoopoe, the species Upupa epops or an individual of this species
2. any bird of the family Upupidae

From Middle Dutch hoppe.

hop f (uncountable)

1. hop, Humulus lupulus

From hoppen.

hop

1. go, get going

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

1. a hop, a short jump

Either a clipping of hoppu, or directly from Swedish hopp (“jump”). Consider also the synonym hopoti (“horse”).

• IPA^(key): [ˈhop]
• Rhymes: -op
• Hyphenation: hop

hop

1. General spurring interjection.
2. Used to entice a horse into a run.
   • 1913 SKVR VIII 1625. Piikkiö. Häyrinen Kalle 8. 13.

     Hop humma Huttalaan, / parastelle Pappilaa, / Pappilasta Koroissii, / Koroissista Käräjiin,

     Hop horse to Huttala ...

   • 1913 SKVR IX1 352. Renko. Salo Aukusti. HO 24 239. 13.

     Mee ny kuultaan kirkonkellot. / Muut kuulee karjan kellot / Hop tamma / Ei ilman haluta / Jos ei poika likkaa taluta.

     ... Hop mare ...

   • 1915 SKVR XIV 1026. Myrskylä. Salminen, T. 117. 15.

     Hop hoppa kirkkoo! / Aja mummun aitan etee / Saat voitakaakkuu

     Hop horse to church / Run to the front of grandmother's granary ...

• hopoti
• hopoti hoi

• hopo
• hoppa
• hopotiti hoi
• hoputtaa

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔp/

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hop

1. Voila!, hey presto!

• “hop” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

hop m (genitive singular hop, nominative plural hopanna)

1. Alternative form of hap (“hop; blow”)

• "hop" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

From Old Norse hópr.

hop m (definite singular hopen, indefinite plural hoper, definite plural hopene)

1. heap, pile, crowd, multitude, cluster

• stjernehop

• “hop” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse hópr. Akin to English heap

• IPA^(key): /huːp/

hop m (definite singular hopen, indefinite plural hopar, definite plural hopane)

1. flock, heap, gathering

• “hop” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

hop

1. redwood tree

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hop c

1. heap, collection; a whole bunch

• hopa