hop
Pronunciation Noun
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Pronunciation Noun
hop (plural hops)
- A short jump.
- The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.
- A jump on one leg.
- A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
- (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
- (US, dated) A dance.
- (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
- Portuguese: hop
hop (hops, present participle hopping; past and past participle hopped)
- (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
- 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
- (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
- (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.
- (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.
- (transitive) To jump onto, or over
- (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.
- (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
- To dance.
- French: sauter à cloche-pied
- German: hüpfen
- Italian: saltellare
- Portuguese: pulinhar, pulicar
- Russian: подпры́гивать
- Spanish: saltar
- Italian: saltàr su
- Russian: пры́гать
hop (plural hops)
- The plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed.
(usually, in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc. - (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.’
- 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 177:
- The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
hop (hops, present participle hopping; past and past participle hopped)
- (transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
- (intransitive) To gather hops.
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