hop
UK /hɒp/ · US /hɑp/ noun, verb, proper noun
Forms hops hopping hopped
- noun A short jump. “The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.”
- noun A jump on one leg.
- noun A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
- noun (informal, figurative) A brief period of development or progress. “For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television.”
- noun (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
- noun (UK, US, slang, dated) A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
- noun (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
- verb (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
- verb (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
- verb (intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity. “Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.”
- verb (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.”
- verb (transitive) To jump onto, or over
- verb (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one. “We were party-hopping all weekend.”
- verb (informal, intransitive) To go in a quick or sudden manner.
- verb (informal) To dance.
- noun A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.
- noun (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer.
- noun (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
- noun The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
- verb (transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
Synonyms
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Etymology
From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, 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”), Danish hoppe (“to hop, leap, jump”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).
From Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keup (“tuft, hair of the head”), referring to the plant's appearance. Cognate with German Hopfen and French houblon.
Borrowed from Dutch Hop.
Borrowed from Icelandic Hóp (compare hóp (“crowd, group, cluster, mound”)).
Webster’s 1913
- verb To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. [Birds] hopping from spray to spray. Dryden.
- verb To walk lame; to limp; to halt. Dryden.
- noun A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
- noun A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.] Hop, skip (or step), and jump, a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession. Addison.
Etymology [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian; akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G. hüpfen.]
Etymology [OE. hoppe; akin to D. hop, hoppe, OHG. hopfo, G. hopfen; cf. LL. hupa, W. hopez, Armor. houpez, and Icel. humall, SW. & Dan. humle.]
Sources: Wiktionary · WordNet 3.0 · Webster’s 1913 — from the Wiktionary entry “hop”, CC BY-SA 4.0. Details