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See also: hóp, hớp, họp, hộp, hợp, and Hóp

English

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Pronunciation

  • (UK) IPA(key): /hɒp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒp
  • (US) IPA(key): /hɑp/
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Etymology 1

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), 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”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).

Noun

hop (plural hops)

  1. A short jump.
    The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.
  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.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
      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.
  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.
    • 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.
  6. (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
Derived terms
terms derived from hop (noun)
Translations

Verb

hop (third-person singular simple present hops, present participle hopping, simple past and past participle hopped)

  1. (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
    Synonyms: jump, leap
  2. (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
  3. (intransitive) 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.
  4. (transitive) 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.
  5. (transitive) To jump onto, or over
    • 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 June 2018:
      They hop the curb and cut their engines.
    • 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
      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.
  6. (intransitive, usually in combination) 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.
  7. (informal, intransitive) To go in a quick or sudden manner.
    • 2010, Tony Gin, My Blessed Demons, page 285:
      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?"
    • 2016, A.P. Jensen, Closure:
      Juliet shook her head as she hopped on the computer and greeted a customer who ambled in, blowing on her still wet nails.
    • 2018, Sean Grigsby, Daughters of Forgotten Light:
      Spangler hopped up from the control panel and stretched, pressing his hands to his lower back.
    • 2020, Michael Hewes, The Milk Wagon:
      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.
  8. (informal) To dance.
  9. (obsolete) To walk lame; to limp.
    • a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, “(please specify the title)”, in The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, , volume IV, London: J and R Tonson, , published 1760, →OCLC:
      The limping smith […] hopping here and there, himself a jest […]
Derived terms
terms related to hop (verb)
Translations

Etymology 2

From Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô. Cognate with German Hopfen and French houblon.

Noun

hop (plural hops)

  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.
  3. (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
  4. (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:opium
    • 1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 177:
      ‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’
  5. The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.
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Translations

Verb

hop (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
    • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. , 2nd edition, London: J H for H Mortlock , and J Robinson , published 1708, →OCLC:
      If you brew in March or October, and have hopped it for long keeping […]
  2. (intransitive) To gather hops.
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Anagrams

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hopp (“jump”).

Pronunciation

Noun

hop n (singular definite hoppet, plural indefinite hop)

  1. jump
Inflection
Declension of hop
neuter
gender 		Singular Plural
indefinite definite indefinite definite
nominative hop hoppet hop hoppene
genitive hops hoppets hops hoppenes

Etymology 2

See hoppe.

Pronunciation

Verb

hop

  1. imperative of hoppe

Dutch

Pronunciation

Etymology 1

Upupa epops in Nederlandsche vogelen, 1770-1829

From Middle Dutch hoppe, ultimately from Latin upupa (“hoopoe”), which may have been borrowed through Old French huppe.

Noun

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

  1. hoopoe, the species Upupa epops or an individual of this species
  2. any bird of the family Upupidae
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Further reading

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô (“hops”), possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keup (“tuft, hair of the head”), referring to the plant's appearance. Compare Old Saxon hoppo, Old High German hopfo, Middle English hoppe.

Noun

hop f (uncountable)

  1. hop, Humulus lupulus
Derived terms
Descendants
  • Afrikaans: hop
  • → Japanese: ホップ

Further reading

Etymology 3

From hoppen, huppen (“to hop”).

Interjection

hop

  1. Synonym of hoppa (“let's go, hey presto, alley-oop”)
Derived terms

Noun

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

  1. a hop, a short jump

References

Finnish

Etymology

Either a clipping of hoppu, or directly from Swedish hopp (“jump”). Consider also the synonym hopoti (“horse”).

Pronunciation

Interjection

hop

  1. General spurring interjection.
  2. Used to entice a horse into a run.
    • 1913 SKVR VIII 1625. Piikkiö. Häyrinen Kalle 8. 13.
      Hop humma Huttalaan, / parastelle Pappilaa, / Pappilasta Koroissii, / Koroissista Käräjiin,
      Hop horse to Huttala ...
    • 1913 SKVR IX1 352. Renko. Salo Aukusti. HO 24 239. 13.
      Mee ny kuultaan kirkonkellot. / Muut kuulee karjan kellot / Hop tamma / Ei ilman haluta / Jos ei poika likkaa taluta.
      ... Hop mare ...
    • 1915 SKVR XIV 1026. Myrskylä. Salminen, T. 117. 15.
      Hop hoppa kirkkoo! / Aja mummun aitan etee / Saat voitakaakkuu
      Hop horse to church / Run to the front of grandmother's granary ...

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French

Pronunciation

Interjection

hop

  1. voila!, hey presto!

Further reading

Indonesian

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /hop/
  • Hyphenation: hop

Etymology 1

From Dutch hoofd (“head”).

Noun

hop

  1. head, (of an organisation), chief, boss
    Synonym: kepala

Etymology 2

Unadapted borrowing from Javindo hop (“stop”), from Dutch ophouden (“uphold, stop”).

Verb

hop

  1. (Java, colloquial) to stop
    Synonyms: stop, setop, berhenti, mandek

Further reading

Irish

Noun

hop m (genitive singular hop, nominative plural hopanna)

  1. Alternative form of hap (“hop; blow”)

Declension

Declension of hop

Fourth declension

Bare forms

Case Singular Plural
Nominative hop hopanna
Vocative a hop a hopanna
Genitive hop hopanna
Dative hop hopanna

Forms with the definite article

Case Singular Plural
Nominative an hop na hopanna
Genitive an hop na hopanna
Dative leis an hop

don hop

leis na hopanna

Further reading

Norwegian Bokmål

Etymology

From Old Norse hópr.

Noun

hop m (definite singular hopen, indefinite plural hoper, definite plural hopene)

  1. heap, pile, crowd, multitude, cluster

Derived terms

References

Norwegian Nynorsk

Etymology

From Old Norse hópr. Akin to English heap.

Pronunciation

Noun

hop m (definite singular hopen, indefinite plural hopar, definite plural hopane)

  1. flock, heap, gathering

Derived terms

References

Polish

Alternative forms

Etymology

Onomatopoeic.

Pronunciation

Interjection

hop

  1. used to encourage the listener to jump up or some other action; hop up! hop to it!
  2. (often reduplicated) used to determine where someone is (Is there an English equivalent to this definition?)

Derived terms

proverb

Further reading

  • hop in Wielki słownik języka polskiego, Instytut Języka Polskiego PAN
  • hop in Polish dictionaries at PWN

Southern Ohlone

Noun

hop

  1. redwood tree

Swedish

Etymology

From Old Norse hópr.

Pronunciation

Noun

hop c

  1. heap, collection; a whole bunch

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