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What's The Definition Of Hop?
[n] the act of hopping (jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot))
[n] an informal dance where popular music is played [n] twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes [v] informal: travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; "She hopped a train to Chicago"; "He hopped rides all over the country" [v] jump lightly [v] make a jump forward or upward [v] jump across; "He hopped the bush" [v] make a quick trip esp. by air; "Hop the Pacific Ocean" [v] move quickly from one place to another Synonyms | Synonyms for Hop: hops | hop-skip | record hop | skip Related Terms | Find terms related to Hop: aeroplane | airlift | airplane | alcohol | amble | amobarbital sodium | Amytal | Amytal pill | analgesic | and jump | anodyne | bal | bal costume | bal masque | ball | balloon | barb | barbiturate | barbiturate pill | barge | barn dance | be airborne | black stuff | blue | blue angel | blue devil | blue heaven | blue velvet | bounce | bound | bowl along | broad jump | buck | buckjump | bundle | calmative | canter | capriole | chloral hydrate | clear | clog | clop | clump | codeine | codeine cough syrup | country dance | cruise | curvet | dance | Demerol | demivolt | depressant | depressor | dolly | Dolophine | dope | downer | drag | drift | fancy-dress ball | ferry | flight | flit | flounce | fly | flying jump | foot | footfall | footslog | footstep | fox-trot | galliard | gallop | gelandesprung | get | git | glide | goofball | grand jete | H | halt | handspring | hard stuff | heroin | high jump | Highland fling | hightail | hippety-hop | hitch | hobble | hoof | hoofbeat | hop along | horse | hotfoot | hover | hurdle | hydroplane | hypnotic | jet | jete | jig | jog | jolt | jump | jump over | jump shot | jump turn | jump-hop | jump-off | junk | knockout drops | laudanum | lavolta | leap | leap over | leapfrog | limp | liquor | long jump | lop | lope | lotus | lumber | Luminal | Luminal pill | lunge | lurch | M | make tracks | mask | masked ball | masque | masquerade | masquerade ball | meperidine | methadone | Mickey Finn | mince | mixer | morphia | morphine | morris | narcotic | navigate | negotiate | Nembutal | Nembutal pill | opiate | opium | overjump | overleap | overskip | pace | pacifier | paddle | pain killer | paregoric | peg | pen yan | phenobarbital | phenobarbital sodium | piaffe | piaffer | plod | pole vault | pounce | pounce on | pounce upon | prance | prom | promenade | purple heart | quietener | rack | rainbow | record hop | red | roll | run | running broad jump | running high jump | sail | sailplane | sashay | saunter | saut de basque | scag | scuff | scuffle | scuttle | seaplane | secobarbital sodium | Seconal | Seconal pill | sedative | shake | shamble | shimmy | shindig | shindy | shit | shuffle | sidle | single-foot | ski jump | skip | skitter | sleeper | sleep-inducer | sleeping draught | sleeping pill | slink | slither | slog | slouch | smack | soar | sodium thiopental | solo | somnifacient | soother | soothing syrup | soporific | spring | sprint | square dance | stag dance | stagger | stalk | stamp | start | start aside | start up | steeplechase | step | step along | step lively | stomp | straddle | straggle | stride | stroll | strut | stump | swagger | swing | take the air | take wing | tap-dance | tar | tea dance | test flight | the dansant | tittup | toddle | totter | tour jete | traipse | tranquilizer | tread | trip | trot | trudge | Tuinal | Tuinal pill | turps | updive | upleap | upspring | vault | volplane | waddle | waltz | wamble | white stuff | wiggle | wing | wobble | yellow | yellow jacket See Also | American hop | bed hop | bestride | bine | bound | clear | climb on | common hop | common hops | cover | cross | cut across | cut through | dance | European hop | genus Humulus | get across | get on | get over | hop on | Humulus | Humulus americanus | Humulus japonicus | Humulus lupulus | Japanese hop | jump | jump | jump on | jumping | leap | mount | mount up | move | pass over | skip over | spring | top | track | travel | traverse | vine Hop In Webster's Dictionary \Hop\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Hopped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
{Hopping}.] [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian;
akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G.
h["u]pfen.]
1. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or
jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
[Birds] hopping from spray to spray. --Dryden.
2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. --Dryden.
3. To dance. --Smollett.
\Hop\, n. 1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring. 2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.] {Hop}, {skip} (or {step}), {and jump}, a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession. \Hop\, n. [OE. hoppe; akin to D. hop, hoppe, OHG. hopfo, G. hopfen; cf. LL. hupa, W. hopez, Armor. houpez, and Icel. humall, SW. & Dan. humle.] 1. (Bot.) A climbing plant ({Humulus Lupulus}), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops). 2. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste. 3. The fruit of the dog-rose. See {Hip}. {Hop back}. (Brewing) See under 1st {Back}. {Hop clover} (Bot.), a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature ({Trifolium agrarium}, and {T. procumbens}). {Hop flea} (Zo["o]l.), a small flea beetle ({Haltica concinna}), very injurious to hops. {Hop fly} (Zo["o]l.), an aphid ({Phorodon humuli}), very injurious to hop vines. {Hop froth fly} (Zo["o]l.), an hemipterous insect ({Aphrophora interrupta}), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines. {Hop hornbeam} (Bot.), an American tree of the genus {Ostrya} ({O. Virginica}) the American ironwood; also, a European species ({O. vulgaris}). {Hop moth} (Zo["o]l.), a moth ({Hypena humuli}), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines. {Hop picker}, one who picks hops. {Hop pole}, a pole used to support hop vines. {Hop tree} (Bot.), a small American tree ({Ptelia trifoliata}), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops. {Hop vine} (Bot.), the climbing vine or stalk of the hop. \Hop\, v. t. To impregnate with hops. --Mortimer. \Hop\, v. i. To gather hops. Usage: [Perhaps only in the form {Hopping}, vb. n.] |
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