Definitions for HOP
hɒphop

Princeton's WordNetRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hopnoun

   the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)

2. hop, hopsnoun

   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

3. hop, record hopverb

   an informal dance where popular music is played

4. hop, skip, hop-skipverb

   jump lightly

5. hopverb

   move quickly from one place to another

6. hopverb

   travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.

   "She hopped a train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country"

7. hopverb

   traverse as if by a short airplane trip

   "Hop the Pacific Ocean"

8. hopverb

   jump across

   "He hopped the bush"

9. hopverb

   make a jump forward or upward

GCIDERate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hopnoun

   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. Addison.

WiktionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hopnoun

   a narcotic drug, usually opium

2. Etymology: From hoppen, from hoppian, from huppōnan, from keub-. Cognate with hoppen, hopfen, hoppen, Swedish hoppa, hoppa.

Samuel Johnson's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hopnoun

   Etymology: from the verb.

   1. A jump; a light leap.2. A jump on one leg.

   When my wings are on, I can go above a hundred yards at a hop, step, and jump. Joseph Addison, Guardian.

   3.A place where meaner people dance. Robert Ainsworth

2. HOPnoun

   lupulus, Latin. A plant.

   Etymology: hop, Dutch;

   It has a creeping root: the leaves are rough, angular, and conjugated; the stalks climb and twist about whatever is near them; the flowers are male and female on different plants: the male flower consists of a calyx divided into five parts, which surrounds the stamina, but has no petals to the flower: the female plants have their flowers collected into squamose heads, which grow in bunches: from each of the leafy scales is produced an horned ovary, which becomes a single roundish seed. Philip Miller.

   If hop yard or orchard ye mind for to have,
   For hop poles and crotches in lopping go save. Thomas Tusser, Husb.

   The planting of hop yards is profitable for the planters, and consequently for the kingdom. Francis Bacon, Advice to Villiers.

   Beer hath malt first infused in the liquor, and is afterwards boiled with the hop. Francis Bacon, Natural History.

   Next to thistles are hop strings, cut after the flowers are gathered. William Derham, Physico-Theology.

   Have the poles without forks, otherwise it will be troublesome to part the hop vines and the poles. John Mortimer, Husband.

   When you water hops, on the top of every hill put dissolved dung, which will enrich your hop hills. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   In Kent they plant their hop gardens with apple-trees and cherry-trees between. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   The price of hoeing of hop ground is forty shillings an acre. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   Hop poles, the largest sort, should be about twenty foot long, and about nine inches in compass. John Mortimer, Husband.

3. To Hopverb

   Etymology: from the noun.

   1. To impregnate with hops.

   Brew in March or October, and hop it for long keeping. John Mortimer, Husbandry.

   To increase the milk, diminished by flesh-meat, take malt-drink not much hopped. John Arbuthnot, on Aliments.

4. To HOPverb

   Etymology: hoppan, Saxon; hoppen, Dutch.

   1. To jump; to skip lightly.

   I would have thee gone,
   And yet no further than a wanton’s bird,
   That lets it hop a little from her hand,
   And with a silk thread plucks it back again. William Shakespeare.

   Go, hop me over every kennel home;
   For you shall hop without my custom, sir. William Shakespeare.

   Be kind and curteous to this gentleman,
   Hop in his walks, and gambol in his eyes. William Shakespeare.

   The painted birds, companions of the Spring,
   Hopping from spray to spray were heard. Dryden.

   Your Ben and Fletcher, in their first young flight,
   Did no Volpone, nor no Arbaces write;
   But hopp’d about, and short excursions made
   From bough to bough, as if they were afraid. Dryden.

   Why don’t we vindicate ourselves by trial ordeal, and hop over heated ploughshares blindfold. Jeremy Collier, on Duelling.

   I am highly delighted to see the jay or the thrush hopping about my walks. Spectator.

   2. To leap on one leg.

   Men with heads like dogs, and others with one huge foot alone, whereupon they did hop from place to place. George Abbot.

   3. To walk lamely, or with one leg less nimble or strong than the other; to limp; to halt.

   The limping smith observ’d the sadden’d feast,
   And hopping here and there, himself a jest,
   Put in his word. John Dryden, Homer.

   4. To move; to play.

   Softly feel
   Her feeble pulse, to prove if any drop
   Of living blood yet in her veins did hop. Fairy Queen, b. ii.

ChatGPTRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hop

   Hop is both a verb and a noun. As a verb, it means to jump lightly or quickly from one place to another, typically on one or both feet. It can also refer to travel or move quickly to a particular place or in a specified manner. As a noun, it refers to the act of hopping or jumping. Additionally, in the botany field, "hop" refers to a climbing plant used in brewing to add flavor to beer.

Webster DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hopverb

   to move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do

2. Hopverb

   to walk lame; to limp; to halt

3. Hopverb

   to dance

4. Hopnoun

   a leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring

5. Hopnoun

   a dance; esp., an informal dance of ball

6. Hopnoun

   a climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops)

7. Hopnoun

   the catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste

8. Hopnoun

   the fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip

9. Hopverb

   to impregnate with hops

10. Hopverb

    to gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]

11. Etymology: [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian; akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G. hpfen.]

WikidataRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hop

   Humulus, hop, is a small genus of flowering plants in the family Cannabaceae, which also includes cannabis. The hop is native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The species H. lupulus is the main flavour ingredient in many types of beer, and as such is widely cultivated for use by the brewing industry.

Chambers 20th Century DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. Hop

   hop, v.i. to leap on one leg: to spring: to walk lame: to limp:—pr.p. hop′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. hopped.—n. a leap on one leg: a jump: a spring: a dance, dancing-party.—ns. Hop′-o'-my-thumb, the diminutive hero of one of Madame D'Aulnoy's famous nursery tales—'le petit pouce,' not to be confounded with the English Tom Thumb; Hop′per, one who hops: a shaking or conveying receiver, funnel, or trough in which something is placed to be passed or fed, as to a mill: a boat having a movable part in its bottom for emptying a dredging-machine: a vessel in which seed-corn is carried for sowing; Hop′ping, the act of one who hops or leaps on one leg; Hop′-scotch, a game in which children hop over lines scotched or traced on the ground.—Hop, skip, and jump, a leap on one leg, a skip, and a jump with both legs; Hop the twig (slang), to escape one's creditors: to die. [A.S. hoppian, to dance; Ger. hüpfen.]

2. Hop

   hop, n. a plant with a long twining stalk, the bitter cones of which are much used in brewing and in medicine.—v.t. to mix with hops.—v.i. to gather hops:—pr.p. hop′ping; pa.t. and pa.p. hopped.—ns. Hop′bind (corrupted into Hopbine), the stalk of the hop; Hop′-flea, a small coleopterous insect, very destructive to hop plantations in spring; Hop′-fly, a species of Aphis, or plant-louse, injurious to hop plantations; Hop′-oast, a kiln for drying hops.—adj. Hopped, impregnated with hops.—ns. Hop′per, Hop′-pick′er, one who picks hops; a mechanical contrivance for stripping hops from the vines; Hop′ping, the act of gathering hops: the time of the hop harvest; Hop′-pock′et, a coarse sack for hops—as a measure, about 1½ cwt. of hops; Hop′-pole, a slender pole supporting a hop-vine.—adj. Hop′py, tasting of hops.—ns. Hop′-tree, an American shrub, with bitter fruit, a poor substitute for hops; Hop′-vine, the stock or stem of the hop; Hop′-yard, a field where hops are grown. [Dut. hop; Ger. hopfen.]

The New Hacker's DictionaryRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hop

   1. n. [common] One file transmission in a series required to get a file from point A to point B on a store-and-forward network. On such networks (including the old UUCP network and and FidoNet), an important inter-machine metric is the number of hops in the shortest path between them, which can be more significant than their geographical separation. See bang path. 2. v. [rare] To log in to a remote machine, esp. via rlogin or telnet. “I'll hop over to foovax to FTP that.”

The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon WurdzRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HOP

   To skip. HOPPER A skipper.

Editors ContributionRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. hop

   A type of cultivar, plant and seed created and cultivated in various species.

   The hop plant is cultivated to be used as hops and is used specifically in the creation and process of a variety of types of beer.

   
   

   Submitted by MaryC on October 10, 2016  

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   hopverb

   To move by jumping on one foot.

   I hopped off the couch.

   
   

   Submitted by zakaria1409 on July 9, 2022  

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1. HOP

   What does HOP stand for? -- Explore the various meanings for the HOP acronym on the Abbreviations.com website.

Surnames Frequency by Census RecordsRate this definition:0.0 / 0 votes

1. HOP

   According to the U.S. Census Bureau, Hop is ranked #40371 in terms of the most common surnames in America.
   
   The Hop surname appeared 542 times in the 2010 census and if you were to sample 100,000 people in the United States, approximately 0 would have the surname Hop.
   
   88.5% or 480 total occurrences were White.
   3.6% or 20 total occurrences were Asian.
   2.9% or 16 total occurrences were of Hispanic origin.
   2.4% or 13 total occurrences were Black.

Matched Categories

1. • Clear
   • Jump
   • Move
   • Travel
   • Traverse
   • Vine

Anagrams for HOP »

1. poh

2. pho

How to pronounce HOP?

1. Alex

   US English

   David

   US English

   Mark

   US English

   Daniel

   British

   Libby

   British

   Mia

   British

   Karen

   Australian

   Hayley

   Australian

   Natasha

   Australian

   Veena

   Indian

   Priya

   Indian

   Neerja

   Indian

   Zira

   US English

   Oliver

   British

   Wendy

   British

   Fred

   US English

   Tessa

   South African

How to say HOP in sign language?

Numerology

1. Chaldean Numerology

   The numerical value of HOP in Chaldean Numerology is: 2

2. Pythagorean Numerology

   The numerical value of HOP in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3

Examples of HOP in a Sentence

1. Snoop Dogg:

   This is what it's about. This is what hip hop and the NFL is supposed to be about : representing about a change, about moving forward, so we appreciate the NFL for even entertaining hop hop because we know there are a lot of people who won't [ have ] hip hop on stage.

2. Matt Delzell:

   Cam has a cool factor about him, he puts his name and reputation behind different things in different categories again because of the nature of who he is, peyton does pizza and insurance and those are pretty safe categories, safe companies. Beats (headphones) is edgy, they play hip hop in their spots and they are all about music and being cool and Under Armour is certainly a cool brand as well.

3. Joe Biden:

   Perhaps no music has had as profound and powerful an impact in shaping America's musical score as Black music, for generations, Black music has conveyed the hopes and struggles of a resilient people -- spirituals mourning the original sin of slavery and later heralding freedom from bondage, hard truths told through jazz and the sounds of Motown during the civil rights movement, and hip-hop and rhythm and blues that remind us of the work that still lies ahead.

4. Federal Court of Justice:

   The economic value of the original sound was therefore not diminished, the hip-hop music style lives by using such sound sequences and would not survive if it were banned.

5. Marco Rubio:

   Donald Trump don't want kids at a young age exposed to lyrics that somehow glamorize a lifestyle that's art, it's not reality, so one of the issues with the'90s hip hop music is that it had lyrics that were offensive. What it actually was were people who were living in those circumstances expressing what their life was like. In the West Coast case, for example, in South Central L.A. And so it gave insight into the lives that they were living.

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References

1. ^ Princeton's WordNet
   http://wordnetweb.princeton.edu/perl/webwn?s=HOP
2. ^ GCIDE
   https://gcide.gnu.org.ua/?q=HOP
3. ^ Wiktionary
   https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Hop
4. ^ Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
   https://johnsonsdictionaryonline.com/views/search.php?term=HOP
5. ^ ChatGPT
   https://chat.openai.com
6. ^ Webster Dictionary
   https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/HOP
7. ^ Wikidata
   https://www.wikidata.org/w/index.php?search=HOP
8. ^ Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/37683/37683-h/37683-h.htm#:~:text=HOP
9. ^ The New Hacker's Dictionary
   https://www.gutenberg.org/files/3008/3008-h/3008-h.htm#Hop
10. ^ The Foolish Dictionary, by Gideon Wurdz
    https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/1989/pg1989-images.html#:~:text=HOP
11. ^ Surnames Frequency by Census Records
    https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010_surnames.html