Hop

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • verb-intransitive. To move with light bounding skips or leaps.
  • verb-intransitive. Informal To move quickly or busily: The shipping department is hopping this week.
  • verb-intransitive. To jump on one foot.
  • verb-intransitive. To make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.
  • verb-intransitive. To travel or move often from place to place. Often used in combination: party-hop.
  • v. To move over by hopping: hop a ditch two feet wide.
  • v. Informal To jump aboard: hop a freight train.
  • n. A light springy jump or leap, especially on one foot.
  • n. A rebound: The ball took a bad hop.
  • n. Informal A dance or dance party.
  • n. A short distance.
  • n. A short trip, especially by air.
  • n. A free ride; a lift.
  • idiom. hop, skip, and (a) jump A short distance.
  • idiom. hop to it To begin an activity or a task quickly and energetically.
  • n. A twining vine (Humulus lupulus) having lobed leaves and green female flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
  • n. The dried ripe flowers of this plant, containing a bitter aromatic oil. They are used in the brewing industry to prevent bacterial action and add the characteristic bitter taste to beer.
  • n. Slang Opium.
  • v. To flavor with hops.
  • phrasal-verb. hop up Slang To increase the power or energy of: hop up a car.
  • phrasal-verb. hop up Slang To stimulate with or as if with a narcotic.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. the plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed
  • n. the flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
  • n. Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
  • n. a narcotic drug, usually opium
  • n. A short jump
  • n. A jump on one leg.
  • n. A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
  • n. A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
  • n. A dance.
  • n. The sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
  • v. To jump a short distance.
  • v. To jump on one foot.
  • v. To be in state of energetic activity.
  • v. To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
  • v. To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • verb-intransitive. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
  • verb-intransitive. To walk lame; to limp; to halt.
  • verb-intransitive. To dance.
  • n. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
  • n. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball.
  • n. A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
  • n. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.
  • n. The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.
  • v. To impregnate with hops.
  • verb-intransitive. To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form hopping, vb. n.]
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To leap, or move by successive leaps or sudden starts; skip, as birds; frisk or dance about; spring; specifically, as applied to persons, to spring or leap with one foot.
  • To limp; halt; walk lame.
  • To dance.
  • Synonyms Leap, Trip, etc. See skip.
  • To jump over.
  • In cutting rasps, to carry (the punch) with a skipping movement the required distance between the teeth: as, to hop the punch.
  • To die.
  • Synonyms See skip, v. i.
  • n. A leap, especially on one foot; a light spring.
  • n. A dance; a dancing-party.
  • n. A plant, Humulus Lupulus, of the natural order Urticaceœ, with long twining stems and abundant 3- to 5-lobed leaves.
  • n. plural The flowers of this plant, as used in brewing, medicine, etc.
  • n. Wood fit for hop-poles.
  • To treat with hops: as, to hop ale.
  • To pick or gather hops.
  • n. In Tasmania, a leguminous shrub, Daviesia latifolia. Also called bitter-leaf.
  • n. Same as native hop .
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • v. travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
  • v. jump lightly
  • v. move quickly from one place to another
  • v. make a jump forward or upward
  • v. traverse as if by a short airplane trip
  • n. twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer
  • n. the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
  • n. an informal dance where popular music is played
  • v. jump across
  • Verb Form
    hopped    hopping    hops   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    travel    spring    bound    leap    jump    move    cover    cut through    get over    track   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    hopping    hopped    hip   
    Form
    hopback    hopscotch    hoppy   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    limp    halt    dance    jump    spring    leap   
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Bopp    Pop    atop    bop    chop    cop    crop    drop    flop    glop   
    Unknown
    Memes   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    hip    jump    leap    kick    swing    jerk    pop    rap    climb    push