hop

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  1. intransitive verb To move with light bounding skips or leaps.
  2. intransitive verb Informal To move quickly or busily: The shipping department is hopping this week.
  3. intransitive verb To jump on one foot.
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  • We urge our listeners to stop complaining and start listening, because hip-hop is alive and well. —  Mininova
  • Like most aspects of early hip-hop, these baggy pants were appropriated into mainstream culture, where the term parachute expanded to describe the large amount of fabric used for them. —  Stories from The Sun
  • It's also important to note that the best results in hip-hop are achieved when you whisper the lyrics. —  Deadspin
  • Part of Tricky's roots lie in hip-hop, a genre that's often fostered a particularly misogynistic opinion of women. —  Miami New Times | Complete Issue
  • Mind you most of what I am listening to isn't even hip-hop, there might be some rapping but it is basically R&B and it has a groove that I can't resist. —  feminist blogs
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hip ·  jump ·  leap ·  kick ·  swing ·  jerk ·  pop ·  rap ·  climb ·  push ·  jazz ·  trip

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hop:   hopped ·  hopping ·  hops
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Etymologies (6)

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  1. Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian.
  2. Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch.

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  1. from Middle English hoppen, hop, leap, dance, from Anglo-Saxon hoppian (found only once, in the sense of ‘hop, leap’, but the sense of ‘dance’ is proved by the deriv. hoppestre, a female dancer), also hoppetan = Middle Dutch hoppen, hobben, freq. hoppelen, leap, dance, Dutch hoppen, hop, = Old High German *hopfōn, Middle High German G. hopfen (also hoppen, freq. hoppeln, of Low German origin) = Icelandic hoppa, hop, skip, = Swedish hoppa, hop, leap, jump, = Danish hoppe, hop, skip, jump. Other forms are Anglo-Saxon *hyppan, Middle English hyppen, huppen, hippen, English dial. hip, hop, skip, etc. (see hip), and Anglo-Saxon hoppetan, Middle English *hoppeten, English dial. hoppet, hop (see hoppet); not found in Gothic (Moesogothic) Hence hopper, hopple, hobble, etc.
  2. = Danish hop = Swedish hopp, a leap on one foot; from the verb.
  3. from Middle English hoppe (“hoppe, sede for beyre [variant bere], hummulus, secundum extraneos”— Prompt. Parv., adjective d. 1440—the earliest instance in English), from Middle Dutch hoppe, Dutch hop = Middle Low German Low German hoppe = Old High German hopfo, Middle High German hopfe, German hopfen, the hop. The Middle Latin hupa, French houblon, houbelon, Walloon hubillon, hop, Old French hoppe, houppe, beer, are of Dutch origin. The Middle Dutch hommel, Icelandic humall, Swedish Danish humle, later Middle Latin humulus, hummulus, New Latin humulus, the hop, may be ult. connected with hop; but evidence is lacking.
  4. from hop, n.
 

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