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Hop   /hɑp/   Listen
noun
Hop  n.  
1.
A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
2.
A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. (Colloq.)
Hop, skip and jump, Hop, step and a jump or Hop, step and jump,
1.
a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession.
2.
a short distance.


Hop  n.  
1.
(Bot.) A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
2.
The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.
3.
The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.
Hop back. (Brewing) See under 1st Back.
Hop clover (Bot.), a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature (Trifolium agrarium, and Trifolium procumbens).
Hop flea (Zool.), a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops.
Hop fly (Zool.), an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines.
Hop froth fly (Zool.), an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines.
Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya (Ostrya Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (Ostrya vulgaris).
Hop moth (Zool.), a moth (Hypena humuli), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines.
Hop picker, one who picks hops.
Hop pole, a pole used to support hop vines.
Hop tree (Bot.), a small American tree (Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops.
Hop vine (Bot.), the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.


verb
Hop  v. t.  To impregnate with hops.


Hop  v. i.  (past & past part. hopped; pres. part. hopping)  
1.
To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. "(Birds) hopping from spray to spray."
2.
To walk lame; to limp; to halt.
3.
To dance.


Hop  v. i.  To gather hops. (Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.)





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"Hop" Quotes from Famous Books



... It's like a game—or la recherche de l'absolu. And it isn't as though you could hop into a cab and make the round of visits on the General Staff, Civil Governor, and the rest, all in one day, or even all in a week. Nothing so efficient and simple as that. What is an official without an anteroom? As well imagine a soldier without a uniform. And the importance of ...
— Trapped in 'Black Russia' - Letters June-November 1915 • Ruth Pierce
... would break his neck. And so can a kangaroo hop around, but you wouldn't pick a kangaroo to fight a bull buffalo. You'll find out the difference, if ever he tackles my bosun. And no fear my bosun won't get him. He'll get him, you see. And when they come together I'll take good ...
— Wide Courses • James Brendan Connolly
... about, little ones, quick and nimble, In and out wheel about, run, hop, or amble. Join your hands lovingly: well done, musician! Mirth keepeth man in health like a physician. Elves, urchins, goblins all, and little fairies That do filch, black, and pinch maids of the dairies; Make a ring on the grass with your ...
— The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' • Compiled by Frank Sidgwick
... her friend, sharply, "I ain't. He wasn't a bit spry to hop at the chance, 'n' Lord knows there wa'n't no great urgin' on my part. I asked him why he ain't never married, 'n' he laughed like it was a funny subjeck, 'n' said 's long 's he never did it 't that was the least o' his troubles. I didn't call that a very ...
— Susan Clegg and Her Friend Mrs. Lathrop • Anne Warner
... command, reprovingly. "Would ye raise a man's dead wife? Learn discretion from thy elders, an thou hop'st to be a ...
— Mistress Nell - A Merry Tale of a Merry Time • George C. Hazelton, Jr.


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