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hop n (singular definite hoppet, plural indefinite hop)

hoppet (definite singular)
hop (indefinite plural)
hop (indefinite nominative singular)
hoppet (definite nominative singular)
hop (indefinite nominative plural)
hoppene (definite nominative plural)
hops (genitive indefinite singular)
hoppets (definite genitive singular)
hops (genitive indefinite plural)
hoppenes (definite genitive plural)


hop

hoopoe, the species Upupa epops or an individual of this species

nl-noun

hop m (plural hoppen, diminutive hopje n)

hoppen (plural)
hopje (diminutive neuter)

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


hop

Humulus lupulus
Humulus lupulus#Translingual

Afrikaans: hop

→ Japanese: ホップ

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.


hop

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


hop

The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.

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.

2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:

A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.

(sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.

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.

(UK, US, slang, dated) A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.

(networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.

hyppy

sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey

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”).


hop

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.

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:

(intransitive) To jump a short distance.

Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.

The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.

(intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.

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.

(transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.

They hop the curb and cut their engines.

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 2018-06-14:

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.

We were party-hopping all weekend.

bar-hopping

We had to island-hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.

(intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.

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?"

2010, Tony Gin, My Blessed Demons, page 285:

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.

2018, Sean Grigsby, Daughters of Forgotten Light:

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.

(informal, intransitive) To go in a quick or sudden manner.

The limping smith […]hopping here and there, himself a jest[…]

a. 1701 (date written), John Dryden, The Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden, […], volume IV, London: […] J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson, […], published 1760, →OCLC:

en-verb

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

hops (present singular third-person)
hopping (participle present)
hopped (participle past)
hopped (past)


hop

A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.

(usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.

‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’

1940, Raymond Chandler, Farewell, My Lovely, Penguin, published 2010, page 177:

(US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.

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


hop

If you brew in March or October, and have hopped it for long keeping[…]

1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

(transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer


hop

1913 SKVR VIII 1625. Piikkiö. Häyrinen Kalle 8. 13.
Hop humma Huttalaan, / parastelle Pappilaa, / Pappilasta Koroissii, / Koroissista Käräjiin,

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.

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 ...

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


hop

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


hop

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hop m (genitive singular hop, nominative plural hopanna)

hop (genitive singular)
hopanna (nominative plural)
nominative (indefinite)
hop (indefinite singular)
hopanna (indefinite plural)
vocative (indefinite)
a hop (indefinite singular)
a hopanna (indefinite plural)
genitive (indefinite)
dative (indefinite)
nominative (definite)
an hop (definite singular)
na hopanna (definite plural)
genitive (definite)
dative (definite)
leis an hop (definite singular)
don hop (definite singular)
leis na hopanna (definite plural)


hop

hopen (definite singular)
hoper (indefinite plural)
hopene (definite plural)


hop

hopen (definite singular)
hopar (indefinite plural)
hopane (definite plural)

From Old Norse hópr. Akin to English heap.


hop

(Late Old English) a small enclosed valley


hop

used to encourage the listener to jump up or some other action; hop up! hop to it!

(often reduplicated) used to determine where someone is