• (British) IPA: /hɒp/
• (America, Canada) IPA: /hɑp/
• (Australia) IPA: /hɔp/

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian, from Proto-Germanic *huppōną, from Proto-Indo-European *kewb-.

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 takes place on a private plane.
4. (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
5. (UK, US, slang, dated) A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
   • 1896, Benjamin Brierley, James Dronsfield, "Ab-o'th'-Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories

     One singing-room we had closed, and so damaged a "twopenny hop" that it could not have survived another season had our own prosperity continued unchecked.

6. (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.

• Italian: saltello
• Portuguese: salto, pulinho
• Russian: прыжо́к
• Spanish: salto

• Portuguese: hop

hop (hops, present participle hopping; simple past and past participle hopped)

1. (intransitive) To jump a short distance.

   Synonyms: jump, leap

   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC ↗; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC ↗:

     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.

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
6. (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.

   We were party-hopping all weekend.

   bar-hopping

   We had to island-hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.

7. (informal, intransitive) To go in a quick or sudden manner.
   • 2020, Michael Hewes, The Milk Wagon:

     She hopped on the computer and typed away, going back and forth between Mark's fake I.D., the deposit slip and the computer screen.

8. (informal) To dance.
9. (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
   • a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC ↗:

     The limping smith […] hopping here and there, himself a jest […]

• French: sauter à cloche-pied
• German: hüpfen
• Italian: saltellare
• Portuguese: pulinhar, pulicar
• Russian: подпры́гивать
• Spanish: saltar

• Italian: saltàr su
• Russian: пры́гать

From Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch hoppe, from odt *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô.

hop (plural hops)

1. A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.
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.

   Synonyms: Thesaurus:opium

   • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 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.

• French: houblon
• German: Hopfen
• Italian: luppolo
• Portuguese: lúpulo, pé-de-galo
• Russian: хмель
• Spanish: lúpulo, hombrecillo

• German: Hopfen
• Italian: luppolo
• Portuguese: lúpulo
• Russian: хмель
• Spanish: lúpulo

hop (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
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC ↗:

     If you brew in March or October, and have hopped it for long keeping […]

2. (intransitive) To gather hops.

Borrowed from Dutch Hop.

1. Surname.

hop (plural hops)

1. (Australia, slang) Ellipsis of John Hop

1. Synonym of Mari (etymology 3)