hop

noun

/hɒp/UK/hɑp/CA/hɔp/

Etymology

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, 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”), Danish hoppe (“to hop, leap, jump”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).

derived from *kewb-✻ — “to bend, bow”
inherited from *huppōną✻ — “to hop”
inherited from *huppōn✻
inherited from hoppian — “to hop, spring, leap, dance”
inherited from hoppen

Definitions

1
A short jump.
- The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.
A jump on one leg.
3
A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private…
A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
- 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.
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1. 4
  A brief period of development or progress.
  - For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television.
2. A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
3. A dance
  A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
4. The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall…
  The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
5. 8
  To jump a short distance.
  - 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.
6. To jump on one foot.
7. 10
  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.
8. 11
  To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often…
  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.
9. 12
  To jump onto, or over
  - They hop the curb and cut their engines.
10. 13
  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.
11. 14
  To go in a quick or sudden manner.
  - 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?"
  - Juliet shook her head as she hopped on the computer and greeted a customer who ambled in, blowing on her still wet nails.
  - Spangler hopped up from the control panel and stretched, pressing his hands to his lower back.
12. To dance.
13. 16
  To walk lame
  To walk lame; to limp.
  - The limping smith […]hopping here and there, himself a jest[…]
14. A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which…
  A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.
15. The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer.
16. 19
  Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
  - ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’
17. The fruit of the dog rose
  The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
18. 21
  To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the…
  To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
  - If you brew in March or October, and have hopped it for long keeping[…]
19. To gather hops.
20. Synonym of half-op.
21. A surname from Dutch.
22. 25
  Ellipsis of John Hop (“a police officer”).
  - "Police!" snarled Jack. "Bloody Johnny Hops! They couldn't hold a sucking pig in their hands, unless somebody hung on to its tail for them. It's our boys who've got things in hand. And handed them over to the Hops."
23. Synonym of Mari (etymology 3)

The neighborhood

Derived

bad hop, bunny hop, car hop, caught on the hop, hip-hop, hippety-hop, hop and bop, hop clover, hop merchant, hoptree, hop trefoil, in-between hop, Lindy Hop, long hop, multihop, off the hop, on the hop, pro hop, record hop, short hop, side-straddle hop, sock hop, spyhop, common hop, dry hop, dry-hopped, hopback, hopbine, hopbush, hop dog, hop field, hop flea, hop fly, hop-forward, hop garden, hophead, hophornbeam, hop joint, hopless, hop picker · +10 more

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at hop. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

A definitional loop anchored at hop. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

9 hops · closes at hop

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA