What does Hop mean?
Definitions for Hop
hɒphop
This dictionary definitions page includes all the possible meanings, example usage and translations of the word Hop.
Princeton's WordNet
hopnoun
the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
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
hop, record hopverb
an informal dance where popular music is played
hop, skip, hop-skipverb
jump lightly
hopverb
move quickly from one place to another
hopverb
travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
"She hopped a train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country"
hopverb
traverse as if by a short airplane trip
"Hop the Pacific Ocean"
hopverb
jump across
"He hopped the bush"
hopverb
make a jump forward or upward
GCIDE
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.
Wiktionary
hopnoun
a narcotic drug, usually opium
Etymology: From hoppen, from hoppian, from huppōnan, from keub-. Cognate with hoppen, hopfen, hoppen, Swedish hoppa, hoppa.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Hopnoun
Etymology: from the verb.
When my wings are on, I can go above a hundred yards at a hop, step, and jump. Joseph Addison, Guardian.
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.
To Hopverb
Etymology: from the noun.
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.
To HOPverb
Etymology: hoppan, Saxon; hoppen, Dutch.
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.
Men with heads like dogs, and others with one huge foot alone, whereupon they did hop from place to place. George Abbot.
The limping smith observ’d the sadden’d feast,
And hopping here and there, himself a jest,
Put in his word. John Dryden, Homer.Softly feel
Her feeble pulse, to prove if any drop
Of living blood yet in her veins did hop. Fairy Queen, b. ii.
ChatGPT
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 Dictionary
Hopverb
to move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do
Hopverb
to walk lame; to limp; to halt
Hopverb
to dance
Hopnoun
a leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring
Hopnoun
a dance; esp., an informal dance of ball
Hopnoun
a climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops)
Hopnoun
the catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste
Hopnoun
the fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip
Hopverb
to impregnate with hops
Hopverb
to gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]
Etymology: [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian; akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G. hpfen.]
Wikidata
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 Dictionary
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.]
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 Dictionary
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 Wurdz
HOP
To skip. HOPPER A skipper.
Editors Contribution
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
hopverb
To move by jumping on one foot.
I hopped off the couch.
Submitted by zakaria1409 on July 9, 2022
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HOP
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Surnames Frequency by Census Records
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.
Anagrams for Hop »
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pho
Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of Hop in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of Hop in Pythagorean Numerology is: 3
Examples of Hop in a Sentence
The growth of craft brewing in the United States has boosted demand for English varieties, it's a good time to be hop farmer.
These fraternities are places that us as hip-hop artists, we come and do amazing shows for these fraternities, like I just did Texas Tech, I just did Texas AM, Delta Chi, Sigma Chi, and those guys were great. And I've done a show actually at Oklahoma last year, so to see that that chapter feels that type of way toward the black race, it hurts, man. It sucks.
He lived the gang life, but he didn't stay there, sometimes when you can fly above the circumstances of your life, it produce envy and enmity and jealousy among those who have not learned how to fly, but Samuel Asghedom was more than a hip-hop artist. He was a voice and brilliant mind, and the spirit of God was in his life.
Hop Tropic was the only beer that we were brewing for draft sales in the first two months of this pandemic, everything else was in [ cans and bottles ] because that was only the route to market for most craft breweries.
When you hop apps all the time, Altimeter Group’s painful.
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- قفزArabic
- ҡомалаҡBashkir
- хмелBulgarian
- llúpolCatalan, Valencian
- chmelCzech
- hopysWelsh
- humleDanish
- hüpfen, HopfenGerman
- λυκίσκος, λυκίσκοιGreek
- saltar, lúpulo, saltoSpanish
- humalEstonian
- lupuluBasque
- humalaFinnish
- houblon, sauter à cloche-piedFrench
- leannlusIrish
- leumScottish Gaelic
- sop, obManx
- קפיצה דילוגHebrew
- कूदHindi
- komlóHungarian
- թռչկոտել, թռվռալArmenian
- humallIcelandic
- saltàr su, luppolo, saltello, saltellareItalian
- הופHebrew
- ホップJapanese
- ხტომა, სვიაGeorgian
- suspicaminiLatin
- apynysLithuanian
- apinisLatvian
- hīkeikei, tūpekepeke, hīteki, māhitihiti, hītekiteki, hītoko, tarapekepeke, hāpīMāori
- хмељMacedonian
- humleNorwegian
- huppenDutch
- humleNorwegian Nynorsk
- chmielPolish
- pulinhar, pulicar, lúpulo, pulinho, saltoPortuguese
- salt, hameiRomanian
- подпрыгивать, подскакивать, подскочить, скачок, хмель, прыгнуть, подпрыгнуть, прыгать, прыжокRussian
- hmȅlj, хме̏љSerbo-Croatian
- chmeľSlovak
- humleSwedish
- hoplamakTurkish
- nhảy lò còVietnamese
- humul, humulaplan, humulaplanülVolapük
- 跳Chinese
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