English Explanatory Dictionary

hop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
  4. A brief period of development or progress.
  5. A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
  6. A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
  7. The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
verb
  1. To jump a short distance.
  2. To jump on one foot.
  3. To be in state of energetic activity.
  4. To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
  5. To jump onto, or over
  6. To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
  7. To go in a quick or sudden manner.
  8. To dance.
  9. To walk lame; to limp.
noun
  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. The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer.
  3. Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
  4. The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
verb
  1. To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
  2. To gather hops.
noun
  1. Synonym of half-op.
name
  1. A surname from Dutch.
noun
  1. Ellipsis of John Hop (“a police officer”).
name
  1. Synonym of Mari (etymology 3)

Pronunciation

/hɒp/ /hɑp/ En-us-hop.ogg /hɔp/ En-au-hop.ogg

Word forms

hop hops hopping hopped

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”).

Synonyms

jump leap aunti/aunti Emma big O chandu Chinese tobacco dopium dream gun dream stick fi-do-nie gee God's medicine gondola goric guma hop/hops meconium midnight oil mud ope pen yan pin gon pox skee toxy when-shee yen ze zero half-op Mari

Derived words

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 barhop bed-hop b-hop bunny-hop cafe hop channel-hop channel hop club-hop distro-hop grasshopper head-hop hedge-hop hedgehop hop about hop a freight hop and pop hop freight hop in hop into hop it hop off hop-o'-my-thumb hop on hop on down to hop-on hop-off hopper hopping mad hoppity hopscotch hopset hop the twig hop the wag hop to it hop up job-hop joyhop movie hop
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