hop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
Topics: computing
engineering
hobbies
lifestyle
mathematics
natural-sciences
networking
physical-sciences
sciences
sports
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”).
Inflected forms:
form: hops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: hops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: hopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: hopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: hopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A short jump.
pos: noun
examples: The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.
gloss: A jump on one leg.
pos: noun
gloss: A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
pos: noun
examples: 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.
gloss: A brief period of development or progress.
pos: noun
tags: figuratively
informal
examples: For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television.
gloss: A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
pos: noun
tags: US
gloss: A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
pos: noun
tags: UK
US
dated
slang
examples: 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.
gloss: The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
pos: noun
gloss: To jump a short distance.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To jump on one foot.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To be in state of energetic activity.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.
The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.
gloss: To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: 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.
gloss: To jump onto, or over
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: They hop the curb and cut their engines.
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.
gloss: To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
pos: verb
tags: in-compounds
intransitive
usually
examples: We were party-hopping all weekend.
bar-hopping
We had to island-hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.
gloss: To go in a quick or sudden manner.
pos: verb
tags: informal
intransitive
examples: 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.
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.
gloss: To dance.
pos: verb
tags: informal
gloss: To walk lame; to limp.
pos: verb
tags: obsolete
examples: The limping smith […]hopping here and there, himself a jest[…]
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
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