hop up
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Lane Kiffin has a history of getting fired or taking every opportunity to hop up the coaching ladder.
From Los Angeles Times • Nov. 21, 2025
Yorke responds by telling the heckler to "hop up on stage" to make his remarks.
From BBC • Oct. 31, 2024
She’s the kind of teacher who knows nearly everyone and will hop up on a table to help students understand a lesson.
From New York Times • Mar. 19, 2022
When he was much younger and smaller, I had been able to lay him over my shoulder and hop up and down, either on pavement or in the swimming pool at the Jewish Community Association.
From Salon • Jun. 16, 2019
And bouncing around, leap, hop, up around and down, he swings and tries to grab the other monkey’s tail, but the one on the bar keeps swishing it away, without fuss, out of his grasp.
From "Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keyes
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