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
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

Translations

a short jump

• 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

• 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.

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.

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Synonyms

(jump a short distance): jump, leap

Related terms

terms related to hop (verb)

• hopscotch
• grasshopper

• hopping mad
• hop it

Translations

jump a short distance

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

  Mandarin: 跳過, 跳过 (tiàoguò)

• Dutch: huppen (nl)
• French: sauter à cloche-pied
• Georgian: ხტომა (xṭoma), ხტის (xṭis), დახტის (daxṭis)
• German: hüpfen (de)
• Hebrew: קפיצה דילוג‎
• Icelandic: hoppa (is)
• Italian: saltellare

• 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 Dutch hoppe. Cognate with German Hopfen.

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

• hopback
• hoppy
• hop joint

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 (se⁴maa⁴ cou²)

  Mandarin: 蛇麻草 (zh) (shémá cǎo)

• Czech: chmel (cs) m
• Danish: humle (da) c
• Estonian: humal
• Finnish: humala (fi)
• French: houblon (fr) m
• Georgian: სვია (svia)
• German: Hopfen (de) m
• Greek: λυκίσκος (el) m (lykískos)
• 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
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: humle 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 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
• 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) (lykískoi)
• Italian: luppolo m
• Latvian: apiņi m pl
• Macedonian: хмељ m (hmelj)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: humle 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)

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

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Anagrams

• OHP, PHO, POH, 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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French

Pronunciation

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• IPA^(key): /ɔp/

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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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

i hop

1. together

alle i hop

1. everyone

alt i hop

1. everything

References

• “hop” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

hop c

1. heap, collection; a whole bunch

Related terms

• hopa