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hop
1[ hop ]
verb (used without object)
- to 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.
verb (used with object)
- 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.
noun
- 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.
hop
2[ hop ]
noun
- 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.
verb (used with object)
- to treat or flavor with hops.
verb phrase
- 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.
hop
1/ hɒp /
noun
- 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 gardena field of hops
- obsolete.opium or any other narcotic drug
hop
2/ hɒp /
verb
- 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
- informal.intr to move or proceed quickly (in, on, out of, etc)
hop on a bus
- informal.tr to cross (an ocean) in an aircraft
they hopped the Atlantic in seven hours
- informal.tr to travel by means of (an aircraft, bus, etc)
he hopped a train to Chicago
- to bounce or cause to bounce
he hopped the flat stone over the lake's surface
- informal.intr to begin intense activity, esp work
- intr another word for limp 1
- hop it or hop off slang.to go away
noun
- the act or an instance of hopping
- old-fashioned.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
- a bounce, as of a ball
- on the hop informal.
- active or busy
- unawares or unprepared
the new ruling caught me on the hop
Other Words From
- hop·ping·ly adverb
Word History and Origins
Origin of hop1
Origin of hop2
Word History and Origins
Origin of hop1
Origin of hop2
Idioms and Phrases
- hop to it, Informal. to begin to move, become active, or do something immediately: Also hop to.
You'd better hop to it if you intend to buy groceries before the market closes.
More idioms and phrases containing hop
- mad as a hornet (hops)
Example Sentences
“I think the types of stories we do are very similar to what happened with hip-hop,” says Jones.
So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.
This was a guy from the hip-hop generation and with a perspective that was inextricably linked to that generation.
I asked her how her trainers, born and raised in Iran, have learned how to teach hip-hop.
She attends hip-hop and belly dance classes (known as Arabic dance in Iran) just to shine more at parties.
What 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.
Jehosophat wished he were as small as Hop-o'-my-Thumb, so that he could creep through the keyhole and never be seen at all.
The first hop took it to the top of the pew; the second perched it on the shoulder of the stoutest lady.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from 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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