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hop

1  [hop] verb, hopped, hop⋅ping, noun
Use hop in a Sentence
–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

Related forms:
hop⋅ping⋅ly, adverb

Synonyms:
1. jump, spring, bound.

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
5. 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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hop 1   (hŏp)   
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.

  2. To jump on one foot.

  3. To make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.

  4. To travel or move often from place to place. Often used in combination: party-hop.

v.   tr.

  1. To move over by hopping: hop a ditch two feet wide.

  2. Informal To jump aboard: hop a freight train.

n.  

    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.

  2. Informal A dance or dance party.

    1. A short distance.

    2. A short trip, especially by air.

  4. A free ride; a lift.


[Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian.]
hop 2   (hŏp)   
n.  

  1. A twining vine (Humulus lupulus) having lobed leaves and green female flowers arranged in conelike spikes.

  2. 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.

  3. Slang Opium.

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

  1. To increase the power or energy of: hop up a car.

  2. 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
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
hop

  1. n.
    beer. : How about some hop with your hamburger?
  2. n.
    a dancing party for young people. : The kids are out at some school-sponsored hop.
  3. tv.
    to get aboard a plane or train. : I'll hop a plane and be there in a couple of hours.
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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Word Origin & History

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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Medical Dictionary

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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Computing Dictionary

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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Idioms & Phrases

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. Published by Houghton Mifflin.
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Abbreviations & Acronyms
HOP
high oxygen pressure
The American Heritage® Abbreviations Dictionary, Third Edition
Copyright © 2005 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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