Definition of "hop"

hop¹

/hɒp/

noun
plural hops
1. A short jump.
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
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.
  Quotations
  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.
  1896, Benjamin Brierley, ‎James Dronsfield, "Ab-o'th'-Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories
6. (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
verb
third-person singular simple present hops, present participle hopping, simple past and past participle hopped
1. (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
  Quotations
  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.
  1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp.; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I, II, or III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927,
2. (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
3. (intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.
4. (transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
5. (transitive) To jump onto, or over
  Quotations
  They hop the curb and cut their engines.
  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, archived from the original on 14 June 2018
  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.
  2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68
6. (intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
7. (informal, intransitive) To go in a quick or sudden manner.
  Quotations
  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?"
  2010, Tony Gin, My Blessed Demons, page 285
  Juliet shook her head as she hopped on the computer and greeted a customer who ambled in, blowing on her still wet nails.
  2016, A.P. Jensen, Closure
  Spangler hopped up from the control panel and stretched, pressing his hands to his lower back.
  2018, Sean Grigsby, Daughters of Forgotten Light
  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.
  2020, Michael Hewes, The Milk Wagon
8. (informal) To dance.
9. (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
  Quotations
  The limping smith […] hopping here and there, himself a jest […]
  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

hop²

/hɒp/

noun
plural hops
1. The plant Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, the 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.
  Quotations
  ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’
  1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 177
4. The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
verb
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
  Quotations
  If you brew in March or October, and have hopped it for long keeping […]
  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
2. (intransitive) To gather hops.

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