hop

See also: họp, hóp, and hớp

English

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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. (computing, telecommunications) 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

• Italian: saltello m
• Portuguese: salto (pt) m, pulinho m
• Romanian: salt (ro) n

• Russian: прыжок (ru) m (pryžók), скачок (ru) m (skačók)
• Scottish Gaelic: leum m
• Spanish: salto (es) 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.

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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 (tʿṙčʿkotel), թռվռալ (tʿṙvṙal)
• Chinese:

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• Dutch: huppen
• French: sauter à cloche-pied
• Georgian: ხტომა (xtoma)
• German: hüpfen (de)
• Hebrew: קפיצה דילוג
• Italian: saltellàre
• Japanese: please add this translation if you can

• Maori: hītoko, hīkeikei, hīteki, tūpekepeke, hītekiteki, tarapekepeke, māhitihiti
• Portuguese: pulinhar, pulicar
• Russian: подпрыгивать (ru) (podprýgivatʹ) impf., подпрыгнуть (ru) (podprýgnutʹ) pf.; подскакивать (ru) (podskákivátʹ) impf., подскочить (ru) (podskočítʹ) pf.
• Scottish Gaelic: leum
• Spanish: saltar (es)
• Swedish: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: please add this translation if you can

to suddenly take transport

• Italian: saltàr su

• Russian: прыгать (ru) impf (prýgatʹ), прыгнуть (ru) pf (prýgnutʹ)

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch hoppe.

Noun

hop (plural hops)

1. the plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed
2. (usually 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

Translations

the plant whose flowers are used in brewing

• Bashkir: ҡомалаҡ (qomalaq)
• Bulgarian: хмел (bg) m (hmel)
• Catalan: llúpol m
• Czech: chmel (cs) m
• Danish: humle (da) c
• 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
• Italian: luppolo m
• Latgalian: apeiņs
• Latvian: apinis
• Lithuanian: apynys

• Macedonian: хмељ m (hmelj)
• Maori: hāpī
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: humle m

  Nynorsk: humle m

• Polish: chmiel (pl) m
• Portuguese: lúpulo (pt) m
• Romanian: hamei (ro)
• Russian: хмель (ru) m (xm'el')
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: хме̏љ m

  Roman: hmȅlj m

• Slovak: chmeľ m
• Spanish: lúpulo (es) m
• Swedish: humle (sv) c
• Volapük: humulaplan, (young) humulaplanül

(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
• 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 (xm'el')
• 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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Etymology 3

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Noun

hop (plural hops)

1. a narcotic drug, usually opium

Derived terms

terms derived from hop (noun)

hop joint

Anagrams

• OHP
• pho
• pOH, 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

Inflection 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!

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Swedish

Pronunciation

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Noun

hop c hop

1. heap, collection; a whole bunch

Related terms

• hopa