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[hop] /hɒp/

noun
1.
any twining plant of the genus Humulus, bearing male flowers in loose clusters and female flowers in conelike forms.
2.
hops, the dried ripe cones of the female flowers of this plant, used in brewing, medicine, etc.
3.
Older Slang. a narcotic drug, especially opium.
verb (used with object), hopped, hopping.
4.
to treat or flavor with hops.
Verb phrases
5.
hop up, Slang.

/hɒp/
verb hops, hopping, hopped
1.
(intransitive) to make a jump forwards or upwards, esp on one foot
2.
(intransitive) (esp of frogs, birds, rabbits, etc) to move forwards in short jumps
3.
(transitive) to jump over: he hopped the hedge
4.
(intransitive) (informal) to move or proceed quickly (in, on, out of, etc): hop on a bus
5.
(transitive) (informal) to cross (an ocean) in an aircraft: they hopped the Atlantic in seven hours
6.
(transitive) (US & Canadian, informal) to travel by means of (an aircraft, bus, etc): he hopped a train to Chicago
7.
(US & Canadian) to bounce or cause to bounce: he hopped the flat stone over the lake’s surface
8.
(intransitive) (US & Canadian, informal) to begin intense activity, esp work
9.
(intransitive) another word for limp1
10.
(Brit, slang) hop it, hop off, to go away
noun
11.
the act or an instance of hopping
12.
(old-fashioned, informal) a dance, esp one at which popular music is played: we’re all going to the school hop tonight
13.
(informal) a trip, esp in an aircraft
14.
(US) a bounce, as of a ball
15.
(informal) on the hop

/hɒp/
noun
1.
any climbing plant of the N temperate genus Humulus, esp H. lupulus, which has green conelike female flowers and clusters of small male flowers: family Cannabiaceae (or Cannabidaceae) See also hops
2.
hop garden, a field of hops
3.
(obsolete, slang) opium or any other narcotic drug
v.

Old English hoppian “to spring, leap, dance,” from Proto-Germanic *hupnojanan (cf. Old Norse hoppa, Dutch huppen, German hüpfen “to hop”). Related: Hopped; hopping.
n.

usually hops, type of twining vine whose cones are used in brewing, etc., mid-15c., from Middle Dutch hoppe, from Proto-Germanic *hup-nan- (cf. Old Saxon -hoppo, German Hopfen), of unknown origin.

“opium,” 1887, from Cantonese nga-pin (pronounced HAH-peen) “opium,” a Chinese folk etymology of the English word opium, literally “crow peelings.” Re-folk-etymologized back into English by association with hop (n.1).

“a small jump,” c.1500, from hop (v.). Slang sense of “informal dancing party” is from 1731 (defined by Johnson as “a place where meaner people dance”). Meaning “short flight on an aircraft” is from 1909.

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Related Terms

carhop, seagoing bellhop, sock hop, table-hop

modifier

: a hop fiend/ hop dream

noun

[fr a shortening of Cantonese Chinese nga pin, pronounced HAH peen, ”opium,” literally ”crow peelings,” a Chinese folk etymology for English opium; in a subsequent US folk etymology this was changed to hop by assimilation with the plant used to make beer, with its suggestions of intoxication]
high oxygen pressure

In addition to the idioms beginning with
hope