hop

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English[edit]

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Etymology 1[edit]

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”). Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).

Noun[edit]

hop (plural hops)

  1. A short jump
  2. A jump on one leg.
  3. A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
  4. (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
  5. (US, dated) A dance.
  6. (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
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terms derived from hop (noun)
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Verb[edit]

hop (third-person singular simple present hops, present participle hopping, simple past and past participle hopped)

  1. (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
    • 1918, Edgar Rice Burroughs, The Land That Time Forgot Chapter V
      When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail.
  2. (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
  3. (intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.
    Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.
    The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.
  4. (transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
    I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
    He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.
    He hopped a train to California.
  5. (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
    We were party-hopping all weekend.
    We had to island hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
  6. (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)
  7. To dance.
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Smollett to this entry?)
Synonyms[edit]

(jump a short distance): jump, leap

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terms related to hop (verb)
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Etymology 2[edit]

From Middle Dutch hoppe. Cognate with German Hopfen.

Noun[edit]

hop (plural hops)

  1. The plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed.
  2. (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
  3. (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin 2010, p. 177:
      ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’
  4. The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
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Verb[edit]

hop (third-person singular simple present hops, present participle hopping, simple past and past participle hopped)

  1. To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
    (Can we find and add a quotation of Mortimer to this entry?)

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Danish[edit]

Etymology 1[edit]

From Old Norse hopp (“jump”).

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Noun[edit]

hop n (singular definite hoppet, plural indefinite hop)

  1. jump
Inflection[edit]
Declension of hop
neuter
gender		 Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hop hoppet hop hoppene
genitive hops hoppets hops hoppenes

Etymology 2[edit]

See hoppe.

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Verb[edit]

hop

  1. imperative of hoppe

French[edit]

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Interjection[edit]

hop

  1. Voila!, hey presto!

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Swedish[edit]

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hop c

  1. heap, collection; a whole bunch

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