hop

See also: hóp, hớp, họp, hộp, and hợp

English

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /hɒp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp
• (US) IPA^(key): /hɑp/

Etymology 1

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

hop (plural hops)

1. A short jump.

   The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.

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.

Derived terms

terms derived from hop (noun)

• bunny hop
• car hop

• on the hop

• sock hop

• spyhop

Translations

a short jump

• Bulgarian: подскок m (podskok)
• Finnish: hyppäys, hyppy (fi)
• Galician: salto (gl) m, chouto m, chimpo m, pulo m
• Georgian: ნახტომი (naxṭomi)
• Italian: saltello (it) m
• Mandarin: 跳躍 (zh), 跳跃 (zh) (tiàoyuè)

• Portuguese: salto (pt) m, pulinho m
• Romanian: salt (ro) n
• Russian: прыжо́к (ru) m (pryžók), скачо́к (ru) m (skačók)
• Scottish Gaelic: leum m
• Spanish: salto (es) m

sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey

• Finnish: hyppy (fi)

• Portuguese: hop m

Verb

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.

   Synonyms: jump, leap

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. (transitive) To jump onto, or over
   • 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic‎^[1], Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, ISSN 0027-9358, OCLC 1049714034, archived from the original on 14 June 2018:

     They hop the curb and cut their engines.

6. (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.

7. (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Dryden to this entry?)

8. To dance.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Smollett to this entry?)

Related terms

terms related to hop (verb)

• grasshopper

• hop it

• hopping mad

• hopscotch

Translations

jump a short distance

• Armenian: թռչկոտել (hy) (tʿṙčʿkotel), թռվռալ (hy) (tʿṙvṙal)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 跳過, 跳过 (tiàoguò)

• Dutch: huppen (nl)
• Finnish: hypätä (fi), hyppiä (fi)
• French: sauter à cloche-pied
• Galician: choutar (gl), pinchar
• Georgian: ხტომა (xṭoma), ხტის (xṭis), დახტის (daxṭis)
• German: hüpfen (de)
• Hebrew: קפיצה דילוג‎‎

• Icelandic: hoppa (is)
• Italian: saltellare (it)
• Japanese: 跳ねる (haneru)
• Maori: hītoko, hīkeikei, hīteki, tūpekepeke, hītekiteki, tarapekepeke, māhitihiti
• Portuguese: pulinhar, pulicar
• Russian: подпры́гивать (ru) impf (podprýgivatʹ), подпры́гнуть (ru) pf (podprýgnutʹ); подска́кива́ть (ru) impf (podskákivátʹ), подскочи́ть (ru) pf (podskočítʹ)
• Scottish Gaelic: leum
• Spanish: saltar (es)
• Swedish: hoppa (sv), skutta (sv)
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

to suddenly take transport

• Italian: saltàr su

• Russian: пры́гать (ru) impf (prýgatʹ), пры́гнуть (ru) pf (prýgnutʹ)

Etymology 2

From Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô. Cognate with German Hopfen and French houblon.

Noun

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.

Derived terms

Derived terms

• hopback

• hop joint

• hoppy

Translations

the plant whose flowers are used in brewing

• Armenian: գայլուկ (hy) (gayluk), հմուլ (hy) (hmul)
• Bashkir: ҡомалаҡ (qomalaq)
• Basque: lupulu
• Bulgarian: хмел (bg) m (hmel)
• Catalan: llúpol m, esparga f
• Chinese:

  Cantonese: 蛇麻草 (se⁴ maa⁴ cou²)

  Mandarin: 蛇麻草 (zh) (shémá cǎo)

• Chuvash: хӑмла (hămla)
• Czech: chmel (cs) m
• Danish: humle (da) c
• Dutch: hop (nl) m, f
• Estonian: humal
• Faroese: humli (fo) m
• Finnish: humala (fi)
• French: houblon (fr) m
• Georgian: სვია (svia)
• German: Hopfen (de) m
• Greek: λυκίσκος (el) m (lykískos)
• Greenlandic: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: komló (hu)
• Icelandic: humall (is) m
• Irish: leannlus
• Italian: luppolo m
• Japanese: ホップ (hoppu)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Lao: please add this translation if you can
• Latgalian: apeiņs
• Latvian: apinis (lv)

• Lithuanian: apynys
• Macedonian: хмељ m (hmelj)
• Manx: ob, sop
• Maori: hāpī, hapi
• Northern Sami: uvlu
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: humle (no) m

  Nynorsk: humle m

• Persian: رازک‎‎ (fa) (rāzak), خمل‎‎ (fa) (xemel)
• Polish: chmiel (pl) m
• Portuguese: lúpulo (pt) m
• Romanian: hamei (ro)
• Russian: хмель (ru) m (xmelʹ)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хме̏љ m

  Roman: hmȅlj (sh) m

• Slovak: chmeľ (sk) m
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: chmjel m

  Upper Sorbian: chmjel m

• Spanish: lúpulo (es) m
• Swedish: humle (sv) c
• Thai: ดอกฮ็อพ (dòk hóp)
• Turkish: şerbetçiotu (tr), şerbetçi otu (tr)
• Vietnamese: hoa bia
• Volapük: humulaplan, (young) humulaplanül
• Walloon: houbion (wa) m
• Welsh: hopys

(plural) flowers of the hop plant

• Czech: chmel (cs) m
• Danish: humle (da) c
• Georgian: სვია (svia)
• German: Hopfen (de) m
• Greek: λυκίσκοι (el) m pl (lykískoi)
• Italian: luppolo m
• Latvian: apiņi m pl
• Macedonian: хмељ m (hmelj)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: humle (no) m

  Nynorsk: humle m

• Polish: chmiel (pl) m
• Portuguese: lúpulo (pt) m
• Romanian: hamei (ro)
• Russian: хмель (ru) m (xmelʹ)
• Spanish: lúpulo (es) m
• Swedish: humle (sv) c
• Volapük: humul (vo)
• Walloon: houbion (wa) m

Verb

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?)

Anagrams

• OHP, PHO, POH, Pho, pOH, pho, poh

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Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hopp (“jump”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔp/, [hʌb̥]

Noun

hop n (singular definite hoppet, plural indefinite hop)

1. jump

Inflection

Declension of hop

neuter gender	Singular		Plural
	indefinite	definite	indefinite	definite
nominative	hop	hoppet	hop	hoppene
genitive	hops	hoppets	hops	hoppenes

Etymology 2

See hoppe.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /hɔp/, [hʌb̥]

Verb

hop

1. imperative of hoppe

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Dutch

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɦɔp/
• Hyphenation: hop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch hoppe.

Noun

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

1. hoopoe, the species Upupa epops or an individual of this species
2. any bird of the family Upupidae

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch hoppe.

Noun

hop f (uncountable)

1. hop, Humulus lupulus

Etymology 3

From hoppen.

Interjection

hop

1. go, get going

Noun

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

1. a hop, a short jump

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Finnish

Etymology

Either a clipping of hoppu, or directly from Swedish hopp (“jump”). Consider also the synonym hopoti (“horse”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈhop]
• Rhymes: -op
• Hyphenation: hop

Interjection

hop

1. General spurring interjection.
2. Used to entice a horse into a run.
   • 1913 SKVR VIII 1625. Piikkiö. Häyrinen Kalle 8. 13.

     Hop humma Huttalaan, / parastelle Pappilaa, / Pappilasta Koroissii, / Koroissista Käräjiin,

     Hop horse to Huttala ...

   • 1913 SKVR IX1 352. Renko. Salo Aukusti. HO 24 239. 13.

     Mee ny kuultaan kirkonkellot. / Muut kuulee karjan kellot / Hop tamma / Ei ilman haluta / Jos ei poika likkaa taluta.

     ... Hop mare ...

   • 1915 SKVR XIV 1026. Myrskylä. Salminen, T. 117. 15.

     Hop hoppa kirkkoo! / Aja mummun aitan etee / Saat voitakaakkuu

     Hop horse to church / Run to the front of grandmother's granary ...

Synonyms

• hopoti
• hopoti hoi

Related terms

• hopo
• hoppa
• hopotiti hoi
• hoputtaa

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French

Pronunciation

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔp/

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Interjection

hop

1. Voila!, hey presto!

Further reading

• “hop” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

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Irish

Noun

hop m (genitive singular hop, nominative plural hopanna)

1. Alternative form of hap (“hop; blow”)

Declension

Declension of hop

Fourth declension

Bare forms Case Singular Plural Nominative hop hopanna Vocative a hop a hopanna Genitive hop hopanna Dative hop hopanna

Forms with the definite article Case Singular Plural Nominative an hop na hopanna Genitive an hop na hopanna Dative leis an hop don hop leis na hopanna

Further reading

• "hop" in Foclóir Gaeilge-Béarla, An Gúm, 1977, by Niall Ó Dónaill.

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Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hópr.

Noun

hop m (definite singular hopen, indefinite plural hoper, definite plural hopene)

1. heap, pile, crowd, multitude, cluster

Derived terms

• stjernehop

References

• “hop” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

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Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hópr. Akin to English heap

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /huːp/

Noun

hop m (definite singular hopen, indefinite plural hopar, definite plural hopane)

1. flock, heap, gathering

Derived terms

Terms derived from hop

• i hop (“together”)
• alle i hop (“everyone”)

• alt i hop (“everything”)

• stjernehop

References

• “hop” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

• audio

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Noun

hop c

1. heap, collection; a whole bunch

Related terms

• hopa