hop

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

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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”).

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 takes place on a private plane.
   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

     My fellow passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing short hops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield.

4. (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
5. (US, dated) A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
6. (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.

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

1. (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., OCLC 18478577; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, volume 1, New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, OCLC 988016180:

     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, 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.

   • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

     As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.

6. (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.

   We were party-hopping all weekend.

   bar-hopping

   We had to island-hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.

7. (informal, intransitive) To go in a quick or sudden manner.
   • 2010, Tony Gin, My Blessed Demons, page 285:

     We hopped on the freeway heading to LA and I looked over at the dashboard and saw the needle back on “E” and I told the guy, “Hey! You going to make it with the gas you got?"

   • 2016, A.P. Jensen, Closure:

     Juliet shook her head as she hopped on the computer and greeted a customer who ambled in, blowing on her still wet nails.

   • 2018, Sean Grigsby, Daughters of Forgotten Light:

     Spangler hopped up from the control panel and stretched, pressing his hands to his lower back.

   • 2020, Michael Hewes, The Milk Wagon

     She hopped on the computer and typed away, going back and forth between Mark's fake I.D., the deposit slip and the computer screen.

8. (informal) To dance.
9. (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
   • a. 1701 (date written)​, John Dryden, “(please specify the title)”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, OCLC 863244003:

     The limping smith […] hopping here and there, himself a jest […]

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

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.

   Synonyms: see Thesaurus:opium

   • 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.

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

1. (transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708, OCLC 13320837:

     If you brew in March or October, and have hopped it for long keeping […]

2. (intransitive) To gather hops.

• OHP, PHO, POH, Pho, pOH, pho, poh

From Old Norse hopp (“jump”).

• IPA^(key): /hɔp/, [hʌb̥]

hop n (singular definite hoppet, plural indefinite hop)

1. jump

See hoppe.

• IPA^(key): /hɔp/, [hʌb̥]

hop

1. imperative of hoppe

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

From Middle Dutch hoppe, ultimately from Latin upupa (“hoopoe”), which may have been borrowed through Old French huppe.

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

From Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô (“hops”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keup (“tuft, hair of the head”), referring to the plant's appearance. Compare Old Saxon hoppo, Old High German hopfo, Middle English hoppe.

hop f (uncountable)

1. hop, Humulus lupulus

• drooghoppen
• hoppig

• Afrikaans: hop
• → Japanese: ホップ

From hoppen, huppen (“to hop”).

hop

1. go, get going

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

1. a hop, a short jump

• Douglas Harper (2001–2023), “hop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• Oxford English Dictionary, 1884–1928, and First Supplement, 1933.

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

• IPA^(key): /ˈhop/, [ˈho̞p]
• Rhymes: -op
• Syllabification^(key): hop

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 ...

• hopoti
• hopoti hoi

• hopo
• hoppa
• hopotiti hoi
• hoputtaa

• ^{(aspirated h)} IPA^(key): /ɔp/

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hop

1. voila!, hey presto!

• “hop”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

From Dutch hoofd (“head”).

• IPA^(key): /hop/
• Hyphenation: hop

hop

1. head, (of an organisation), chief, boss

   Synonym: kepala

• “hop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Language Development and Fostering Agency — Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic Indonesia, 2016.

hop m (genitive singular hop, nominative plural hopanna)

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

• Ó Dónaill, Niall (1977), “hop”, in Foclóir Gaeilge–Béarla, Dublin: An Gúm, →ISBN

From Old Norse hópr.

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

1. heap, pile, crowd, multitude, cluster

• stjernehop

• “hop” in The Bokmål Dictionary.

From Old Norse hópr. Akin to English heap.

• IPA^(key): /huːp/

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

1. flock, heap, gathering

• “hop” in The Nynorsk Dictionary.

hop

1. redwood tree

From Old Norse hópr.

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hop c

1. heap, collection; a whole bunch

• hopa