Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- v. To move with light bounding skips or leaps.
- v. Informal To move quickly or busily: The shipping department is hopping this week.
- v. To jump on one foot.
- v. To make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.
- v. To travel or move often from place to place. Often used in combination: party-hop.
- v. To move over by hopping: hop a ditch two feet wide.
- v. Informal To jump aboard: hop a freight train.
- n. A light springy jump or leap, especially on one foot.
- n. A rebound: The ball took a bad hop.
- n. Informal A dance or dance party.
- n. A short distance.
- n. A short trip, especially by air.
- n. A free ride; a lift.
- idiom. hop, skip, and (a) jump A short distance.
- idiom. hop to it To begin an activity or a task quickly and energetically.
- n. A twining vine (Humulus lupulus) having lobed leaves and green female flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
- n. The dried ripe flowers of this plant, containing a bitter aromatic oil. They are used in the brewing industry to prevent bacterial action and add the characteristic bitter taste to beer.
- n. Slang Opium.
- v. To flavor with hops.
- hop up Slang To increase the power or energy of: hop up a car.
- hop up Slang To stimulate with or as if with a narcotic.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- To leap, or move by successive leaps or sudden starts; skip, as birds; frisk or dance about; spring; specifically, as applied to persons, to spring or leap with one foot.
- To limp; halt; walk lame.
- To dance.
- Synonyms Leap, Trip, etc. See skip.
- To jump over.
- In cutting rasps, to carry (the punch) with a skipping movement the required distance between the teeth: as, to hop the punch.
- To die.
- Synonyms See skip, v. i.
- n. A leap, especially on one foot; a light spring.
- n. A dance; a dancing-party.
- n. A plant, Humulus Lupulus, of the natural order Urticaceœ, with long twining stems and abundant 3- to 5-lobed leaves. The female flowers, which grow in strobiles or catkins, are used to impart a bitter flavor to malt liquors, and to preserve them from fermeutation, their active properties depending on the presence of an aromatic and mildly narcotic resin, called
lupulin , secreted by the scales and fruit. The hop-plant is a diœcious perennial, indigenous in temperate Europe, Asia, and North America. It is trained upon poles, and requires to be cultivated with great care; a full crop is not produced till the fourth or fifth year after planting. The hops when ripe are picked by hand, dried in a kiln called an oast, and packed into bags or pockets. They can be kept several years by tight packing. In medicine hops are used as a tonic and soporific, in tincture and infusion, and in some cases in bulk. - n. plural The flowers of this plant, as used in brewing, medicine, etc.
- n. Wood fit for hop-poles.
- To treat with hops: as, to hop ale.
- To pick or gather hops.
- n. In Tasmania, a leguminous shrub, Daviesia latifolia. Also called bitter-leaf.
- n. Same as native hop .
Wiktionary
- n. the plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed
- n. usually plural the flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
- n. US, slang Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
- n. A short jump
- n. A jump on one leg.
- n. A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
- n. sports, US A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
- n. US, dated A dance.
- n. computing, telecommunications The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
- v. intransitive To jump a short distance.
- v. intransitive To jump on one foot.
- v. intransitive To be in state of energetic activity.
- v. transitive To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
- v. intransitive To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
- n. a narcotic drug, usually opium
GNU Webster's 1913
- v. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
- v. To walk lame; to limp; to halt.
- v. To dance.
- n. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
- n. colloq. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball.
- n. (Bot.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
- n. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.
- n. The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.
- v. To impregnate with hops.
- v. To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form hopping, vb. n.]
WordNet 3.0
- v. travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
- v. jump lightly
- v. move quickly from one place to another
- v. make a jump forward or upward
- v. traverse as if by a short airplane trip
- n. twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
- n. the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
- n. an informal dance where popular music is played
- v. jump across
Etymologies
- From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian ("to hop, spring, leap, dance"), from Proto-Germanic *huppōnan (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *keub- (“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"). (Wiktionary)
- Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian.Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“I went and put on a rabbit suit with a fluffy tail for my own amusement … * hop hop*”
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“As you take great interest in housewifery concerns, I shall send you a recipe for what we call hop - rising*.”
“Theoretically, Ace could pretty easily clear a baby gate, as he did the front steps in one hop from a standing start yesterday.”
“This hop is responsible for the characteristic flavor of Bohemian Pilsners (most notably Pilsner Urquell).”
“(Early '90s hip hop is my own personal textbook case.) 7: 06 PM”
“I am looking to do something similar, as hip hop is a major influence in my life I want to illustrate my thoughts and feeling on it.”
“Saying hip hop is a poor excuse for music is so ignorant and really, in this day and age, something an out of touch old man would say.”
““It has this rebellion thing that hip-hop is missing now, the thing that made hip-hop hip-hop.””
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“On the "star quality" front, the tradition in hip-hop is for established stars to discover their own proteges to to manage and produce records for.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘hop’.
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Beer and Brewing
Words about beer and the making of it.
airlock, bung, carboy, diversol, hops, mashtun, beer, sparge, trub, wort, malt, malt liquor and 184 more...
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Unknown
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multiple meaning words
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Redundancing
The Moves. Do~do~ditty!
tango, bolero, cha cha, foxtrot, foxtantino, hip hop, hustle, jive, merengue, two step, paso doble, quickstep and 219 more...
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SCIE - graph theory
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3-letter Scrabble Words
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3 Letter Words
A list of English words that are three letters long.
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Jump
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BGP terms
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I am : moving
Words to describe gait and movement.
walk, run, trot, jog, canter, gallop, skip, crawl, slink, slither, amble, trundle and 69 more...
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The Zymurgists Dictionary
Words associated with the art & science fermentation in brewing, winemaking and distilling.
zymurgy, airlock, bung, thin-layer chroma..., carboy, hop, mashtun, malt-kiln, malt-floor, mash-tun, wort, malt-house and 3 more...
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What's That Pokémon Name?
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bulb, dinosaur, ivy, venus, char, salamander, squirt, turtle, blast, tortoise, water, caterpillar and 525 more...
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strangelyrouge's Words
glockenspiel, gewgaw, jetsam, flotsam, gripe, grab, wench, whilst, betwixt, hither, thither, yonder and 1034 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (H)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
haberdashery, hailstone, halcyon, halibut, halo, hamadryad, hammock, harangue, harbour, harebell, harlequin, harp and 104 more...
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Two years
Okay, I admit it. I made a list of words my daughter knew when she was two years old.
bat, baba, a, abalone, about, acorn, adrienne, after, again, airplane, alison, all and 694 more...
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tomax's Words
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