Meaning

12 senses
  1. A short jump.

    The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.

    прыжо́кpryžók, скачо́кskačók

  2. A jump on one leg.

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

  4. (figuratively, informal)A brief period of development or progress.

    For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television.

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

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

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

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

    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

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

    Hopfen, Hopfen

    хмельxmelʹ, хмельxmelʹ

    хмільxmilʹ, хмільxmilʹ

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

  11. The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.

  12. (Internet)Synonym of half-op.

Examples

159 sentences
  1. Tom hopped on his motorcycle and drove off.

    Том стрибнув на свій мотоцикл та поїхав.

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  2. Who's your favorite hip-hop artist?

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  3. Beer contains hops.

    Пиво містить хміль.

    ruВ пиве содержится хмель.

    deBier enthält Hopfen.

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  4. Tom hopped in the driver seat.

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  5. Tom hopped in his car and drove off.

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Translations

9 languages
Українська
By meaning 1
plant:
Русский
By meaning 2
a short jump:
plant:
Deutsch
By meaning 1
plant:

Origin

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”).

From Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keup (“tuft, hair of the head”), referring to the plant's appearance. Cognate with German Hopfen and French houblon.

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Forms

plural: hops
Singularhop
Pluralhops

regular

Synonyms

30 synonyms
Close in meaning
  • an informal dance where popular music is played:record hop
  • 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:hops

Word family

42 related words

See also

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