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. (UK, US, slang, dated) A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
   • 1896, Benjamin Brierley, James Dronsfield, "Ab-o'th'-Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories

     One singing-room we had closed, and so damaged a "twopenny hop" that it could not have survived another season had our own prosperity continued unchecked.

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.

   Synonyms: jump, leap

   • 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:

     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. (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, →OCLC, 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:

     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. A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.
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, published 2010, page 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:

     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/

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• Hyphenation: hop
• Rhymes: -ɔp

Upupa epops in Nederlandsche vogelen, 1770-1829

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

• twaalfdradige paradijshop

• hop (vogel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

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

• hoppen
• hoppig

• Afrikaans: hop
• → Japanese: ホップ

• hop (plant) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedia ^nl

From hoppen, huppen (“to hop”).

hop

1. Synonym of hoppa (“let's go, hey presto, alley-oop”)

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

1. a hop, a short jump

• Douglas Harper (2001–2024) “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.

• IPA^(key): /hop/
• Hyphenation: hop

From Dutch hoofd (“head”).

hop

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

   Synonym: kepala

Unadapted borrowing from Javindo hop (“stop”), from Dutch ophouden (“uphold, stop”).

hop

1. (Java, colloquial) to stop

   Synonyms: stop, setop, berhenti, mandek

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

• hopla, hops, hopsa, hopsasa

Onomatopoeic.

• IPA^(key): /xɔp/

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• Rhymes: -ɔp
• Syllabification: hop

hop

1. used to encourage the listener to jump up or some other action; hop up! hop to it!
2. (often reduplicated) used to determine where someone is (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

• hop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
• hop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

hop

1. redwood tree

From Old Norse hópr.

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hop c

1. heap, collection; a whole bunch

• hopa