hop
Language: English
Part of speech: verb
Pronunciation: ipa: /hɒp/
rhymes: -ɒp
ipa: /hɑp/
ipa: /hɔp/
Forms: form: hops
form: hopping
form: hopped
form: 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”).
Senses: examples: text: 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.
ref: 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 to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
synonyms: jump
leap
glosses: To jump a short distance.
glosses: To jump on one foot.
examples: text: Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.
text: The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.
glosses: To be in state of energetic activity.
examples: text: I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
text: He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.
text: He hopped a train to California.
glosses: To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
examples: text: They hop the curb and cut their engines.
ref: 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 Jun 2018:
text: 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.
ref: 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
glosses: To jump onto, or over
examples: text: We were party-hopping all weekend.
text: bar-hopping
text: We had to island-hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
glosses: To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
examples: text: 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?"
ref: 2010, Tony Gin, My Blessed Demons, page 285:
text: Juliet shook her head as she hopped on the computer and greeted a customer who ambled in, blowing on her still wet nails.
ref: 2016, A.P. Jensen, Closure:
text: Spangler hopped up from the control panel and stretched, pressing his hands to his lower back.
ref: 2018, Sean Grigsby, Daughters of Forgotten Light:
text: 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.
ref: 2020, Michael Hewes, The Milk Wagon:
glosses: To go in a quick or sudden manner.
glosses: To dance.
examples: text: The limping smith […]hopping here and there, himself a jest[…]
ref: 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:
glosses: To walk lame; to limp.
Derived terms: sense: terms derived from hop (verb)
word: barhop
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word: bed-hop
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word: b-hop
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word: bunny-hop
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word: cafe hop
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word: channel-hop
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word: channel hop
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word: club-hop
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word: distro-hop
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word: grasshopper
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word: head-hop
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word: hedge-hop
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word: hedgehop
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word: hippety-hop
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word: hop about
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word: hop a freight
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word: hop and pop
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word: hop freight
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word: hop in
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word: hop into
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word: hop it
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word: hop off
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word: hop-o'-my-thumb
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word: hop on
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word: hop on down to
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word: hop-on hop-off
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word: hopper
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word: hopping mad
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word: hoppity
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word: hopscotch
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word: hopset
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word: hop the twig
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word: hop the wag
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word: hop to it
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word: hop up
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word: job-hop
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word: joyhop
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word: movie hop
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word: spyhop
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word: summit-hop
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word: table-hop