hop
1to make a short, bouncing leap; move by leaping with all feet off the ground.
to spring or leap on one foot.
Informal. to make a short, quick trip, especially in an airplane: He hopped up to Boston for the day.
Informal. to travel or move frequently from one place or situation to another (usually used in combination): to island-hop;to job-hop.
Older Use: Informal. to dance.
to jump over; clear with a hop: The sheep hopped the fence.
Informal. to board or get onto a vehicle: to hop a plane.
Informal. to cross in an airplane: We hopped the Atlantic in five hours.
an act of hopping; short leap.
a leap on one foot.
a journey, especially a short trip by air.
Older Use: Informal. a dance or dancing party.
a bounce or rebound of a moving object, as a ball: She caught the ball on the first hop.
Idioms about hop
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 of hop
1Other words for hop
Other words from hop
- hop·ping·ly, adverb
Words that may be confused with hop
Words Nearby hop
Other definitions for hop (2 of 2)
any twining plant of the genus Humulus, bearing male flowers in loose clusters and female flowers in conelike forms.
hops, the dried ripe cones of the female flowers of this plant, used in brewing, medicine, etc.
Older Slang. a narcotic drug, especially opium.
to treat or flavor with hops.
hop up, Slang.
to excite; make enthusiastic: They hopped the crowd up with fiery speeches.
to add to the power of: The kids hopped up the motor of their jalopy.
to stimulate by narcotics.
Origin of hop
2Dictionary.com Unabridged Based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2024
How to use hop in a sentence
Almost all of the nation’s beer hops—and roughly 40 percent of all hops in the world—are grown by about 75 farms in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, many of them owned by families who have farmed hops for four or five generations.
How Hops Became the Star of American Brewing | Christopher Solomon | October 7, 2020 | Outside OnlineAlthough many people like hops in beer, the team said, growing actual hops requires enormous amounts of water and energy, which makes the taste highly variable between crops.
How Machine Learning Made Hops-Free Hoppy Beer (and Other SynBio Wonders) Possible | Shelly Fan | October 6, 2020 | Singularity HubEven though we wanted to go to the sock hop and party and do all those things and go to the circus like any other kid, we were exposed to other things.
At each location, the team measured the concentrations of four aroma glycosides in each hop cultivar.
How does a crop’s environment shape a food’s smell and taste? | Carolyn Beans | September 10, 2020 | Science NewsBreeding hop varieties to have lower concentrations could diminish the “beer creep” problem faced by large-volume craft brewers who distribute their beer over long distances.
How does a crop’s environment shape a food’s smell and taste? | Carolyn Beans | September 10, 2020 | Science News
“I think the types of stories we do are very similar to what happened with hip-hop,” says Jones.
‘Black Dynamite’ Presents Police Brutality: The Musical | Stereo Williams | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTSo here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
How Taryn Toomey’s ‘The Class’ Became New York’s Latest Fitness Craze | Lizzie Crocker | January 9, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTThis was a guy from the hip-hop generation and with a perspective that was inextricably linked to that generation.
Remembering ESPN’s Sly, Cocky, and Cool Anchor Stuart Scott | Stereo Williams | January 4, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTI asked her how her trainers, born and raised in Iran, have learned how to teach hip-hop.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread | IranWire | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTShe attends hip-hop and belly dance classes (known as Arabic dance in Iran) just to shine more at parties.
Iran’s Becoming a Footloose Nation as Dance Lessons Spread | IranWire | January 2, 2015 | THE DAILY BEASTWhat more could one desire of him, I pray, Than just to hop around and stand for K?
The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to want to stop.
He skirted the place with a quick goosey hop, stumbled a little and felt panic, but made it all right to the office.
We're Friends, Now | Henry HasseJehosophat wished he were as small as hop-o'-my-Thumb, so that he could creep through the keyhole and never be seen at all.
Seven O'Clock Stories | Robert Gordon AndersonThe first hop took it to the top of the pew; the second perched it on the shoulder of the stoutest lady.
Eric, or Little by Little | Frederic W. Farrar
British Dictionary definitions for hop (1 of 2)
/ (hɒp) /
(intr) to make a jump forwards or upwards, esp on one foot
(intr) (esp of frogs, birds, rabbits, etc) to move forwards in short jumps
(tr) to jump over: he hopped the hedge
(intr) informal to move or proceed quickly (in, on, out of, etc): hop on a bus
(tr) informal to cross (an ocean) in an aircraft: they hopped the Atlantic in seven hours
(tr) US and Canadian informal to travel by means of (an aircraft, bus, etc): he hopped a train to Chicago
US and Canadian to bounce or cause to bounce: he hopped the flat stone over the lake's surface
(intr) US and Canadian informal to begin intense activity, esp work
(intr) another word for limp 1
hop it or hop off British slang to go away
the act or an instance of hopping
old-fashioned, informal a dance, esp one at which popular music is played: we're all going to the school hop tonight
informal a trip, esp in an aircraft
US a bounce, as of a ball
on the hop informal
active or busy
British unawares or unprepared: the new ruling caught me on the hop
Origin of hop
1- See also hop into
British Dictionary definitions for hop (2 of 2)
/ (hɒp) /
any climbing plant of the N temperate genus Humulus, esp H. lupulus, which has green conelike female flowers and clusters of small male flowers: family Cannabiaceae (or Cannabidaceae): See also hops
hop garden a field of hops
obsolete, slang opium or any other narcotic drug
Origin of hop
2Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
Other Idioms and Phrases with hop
In addition to the idioms beginning with hope
- hope against hope
- hope springs eternal
- hop to it
- hop up
also see:
- mad as a hornet (hops)
The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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