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hop into

verb

  1. to attack (a person)

  2. to start or set about (a task)

“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

I can do a little more backstory, or hop into characters’ heads.

“There’s just a lot of people who hop into these races and they don’t have any plan to do it. They think, ‘oh, there’s going to be this wave of anti-establishment energy that’s out there, and that’s going to lift me to victory,’” Nellis said.

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Mark Adams of Long Beach, who was visiting Gravitas to inquire about becoming a member, stumbled upon RummiKlub’s event and decided to hop into the game.

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When Crane and Oosterveen’s “Grand Theft Auto” avatars hop into a van with an anonymous gamer and ask this online stranger for his thoughts on Hamlet’s suicidal soliloquy, the man, a real-life delivery driver stuck at home with a broken leg, admits, “I don’t think I’m in the right place to be replying to this right now.”

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I don’t know—seems like a good way to get people to use public transit or, at the very least, hop into a smaller vehicle.

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