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hop

1 [hop]

verb, hopped, hop⋅ping, noun

–verb (used without object)

1.	to make a short, bouncing leap; move by leaping with all feet off the ground.

2.	to spring or leap on one foot.

3.	Informal. to make a short, quick trip, esp. in an airplane: He hopped up to Boston for the day.

4.	Informal. to travel or move frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): to island-hop; to job-hop.

5.	Informal. to dance.

–verb (used with object)

6.	to jump over; clear with a hop: The sheep hopped the fence.

7.	Informal. to board or get onto a vehicle: to hop a plane.

8.	Informal. to cross in an airplane: We hopped the Atlantic in five hours.

–noun

9.	an act of hopping; short leap.

10.	a leap on one foot.

11.	a journey, esp. a short trip by air.

12.	Informal. a dance or dancing party.

13.	a bounce or rebound of a moving object, as a ball: She caught the ball on the first hop.

—Idiom

14.	hop to it, Informal. to begin to move, become active, or do something immediately: You'd better hop to it if you intend to buy groceries before the market closes. Also, hop to.

Origin:
bef. 1000; ME hoppen (v.), OE hoppian; c. G hopfen, ON hoppa

Language Translation for : HOP

Spanish:

saltar a la pata coja,

German:

hüpfen,

Japanese:

片足で跳ぶ

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hop

2 [hop]

noun, verb, hopped, hop⋅ping.

–noun

1.	any twining plant of the genus Humulus, bearing male flowers in loose clusters and female flowers in conelike forms.

2.	hops, the dried ripe cones of the female flowers of this plant, used in brewing, medicine, etc.

3.	Older Slang. a narcotic drug, esp. opium.

–verb (used with object)

4.	to treat or flavor with hops.

—Verb phrase

hop up, Slang.

a.	to excite; make enthusiastic: They hopped the crowd up with fiery speeches.

b.	to add to the power of: The kids hopped up the motor of their jalopy.

c.	to stimulate by narcotics.

Origin:
1400–50; late ME hoppe < MD hoppe (D hop); c. OHG hopfo (G Hopfen)

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hop¹   (hŏp) Pronunciation Key
v.   hopped, hop·ping, hops

v.   intr.

1. To move with light bounding skips or leaps.
2. Informal To move quickly or busily: The shipping department is hopping this week.
To jump on one foot.
To make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.
To travel or move often from place to place. Often used in combination: party-hop.

v. tr.

To move over by hopping: hop a ditch two feet wide.
Informal To jump aboard: hop a freight train.

1. A light springy jump or leap, especially on one foot.
2. A rebound: The ball took a bad hop.
3. A short distance.
4. A short trip, especially by air.
Informal A dance or dance party.
1. A short distance.
2. A short trip, especially by air.
A free ride; a lift.

[Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian.]

hop² (hŏp) Pronunciation Key
n.

A twining vine (Humulus lupulus) having lobed leaves and green female flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
hops The dried ripe flowers of this plant, containing a bitter aromatic oil. They are used in the brewing industry to prevent bacterial action and add the characteristic bitter taste to beer.
Slang Opium.

tr.v. hopped, hop·ping, hops
To flavor with hops.
Phrasal Verb(s):
hop up Slang

To increase the power or energy of: hop up a car.
To stimulate with or as if with a narcotic.

[Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch.]

HOP
abbr. high oxygen pressure

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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hop (v.)

O.E. hoppian "to spring, dance," from P.Gmc. *khupnojanan (cf. O.N. hoppa, Du. huppen, Ger. hüpfen "to hop"). Slang noun sense of "informal dancing party" is from 1731 (defined by Johnson as "a place where meaner people dance").

hop (n.1)

"vine," c.1440, from M.Du. hoppe, from P.Gmc. *khup-nan-, of unknown origin.

hop (n.2)

"opium," 1887, from Cantonese nga-pin (pronounced HAH-peen) "opium," a Chinese folk etymology of the Eng. word opium, lit. "crow peelings." Re-folk-etymologized back into Eng. by association with hop (n.1).

Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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hop
noun
1.	the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
2.	twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
3.	an informal dance where popular music is played
verb
1.	jump lightly
2.	move quickly from one place to another
3.	travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; "She hopped a train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country"
4.	traverse as if by a short airplane trip; "Hop the Pacific Ocean"
5.	jump across; "He hopped the bush"
6.	make a jump forward or upward

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hop

In addition to the idioms beginning with hope, also see mad as a hornet (hops).

The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer.
Copyright © 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company.
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Main Entry: hop
Pronunciation: 'häp
Function: noun
1 : a twining vine (Humulus lupulus) of the mulberry family with 3-lobed or 5-lobedleaves and inconspicuous flowers of which the pistillate ones are in glandular cone-shaped catkins
2 hops pl : the ripe dried pistillate catkins of a hop usedespecially to impart a bitter flavor to malt liquors and also in medicine as a tonic

Main Entry: HOP
Function: abbreviation
high oxygen pressure

Merriam-Webster's Medical Dictionary, © 2002 Merriam-Webster, Inc.
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hop
1. One point-to-point transmission in a series required to get a message from point A to point B on a store and forward network. On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), an important inter-machine metric is the hop count of the shortest path between them. This can be more significant than their geographical separation.
Each exclamation mark in a bang path represents one hop.
2. One direct host-to-host connection forming part of the route between two hosts in a routed network such as the Internet. Some protocols place an upper limit on the hop count in order to detect routing loops.
3. To log in to a remote computer, especially via rlogin or telnet. "I'll hop over to foovax to FTP that."
[The Jargon File]
(1997-06-25)

The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing, © 1993-2007 Denis Howe
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hop

1. n. [common] One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network. On such networks (including UUCPNET and FidoNet), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation. See bang path.
2. v. [rare] To log in to a remote machine, esp. via rlogin or telnet. "I'll hop over to foovax to FTP that."

Jargon File 4.2.0
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Hop

Hop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hopping.] [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian; akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G. h["u]pfen.]

1. 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.

2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. --Dryden.

3. To dance. --Smollett.

Hop

Hop\, n. 1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.

2. 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.

Hop

Hop\, n. [OE. hoppe; akin to D. hop, hoppe, OHG. hopfo, G. hopfen; cf. LL. hupa, W. hopez, Armor. houpez, and Icel. humall, SW. & Dan. humle.]

1. (Bot.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

2. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.

3. The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.

Hop back. (Brewing) See under 1st Back.

Hop clover (Bot.), a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature (Trifolium agrarium, and T. procumbens).

Hop flea (Zo["o]l.), a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops.

Hop fly (Zo["o]l.), an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines.

Hop froth fly (Zo["o]l.), an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines.

Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya (O. Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (O. vulgaris).

Hop moth (Zo["o]l.), a moth (Hypena humuli), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines.

Hop picker, one who picks hops.

Hop pole, a pole used to support hop vines.

Hop tree (Bot.), a small American tree (Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops.

Hop vine (Bot.), the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.

Hop

Hop\, v. t. To impregnate with hops. --Mortimer.

Hop

Hop\, v. i. To gather hops.

Usage: [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]

HOP
high oxygen pressure

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