Hop /(hŏp)/
Hop
v. i.
imp. & p. p. Hopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hopping
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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.
- To walk lame; to limp; to halt.
- To dance.
Hop
n.
- A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
- A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.]
Phrases & Compounds
- Hop, skip 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.
- A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops). (Bot.)
- The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.
- The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.
Phrases & Compounds
- Hop back
- See under 1st Back.
- Hop clover
- a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature (Trifolium agrarium, and Trifolium procumbens).
- Hop flea
- a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops.
- Hop fly
- an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines.
- Hop froth fly
- an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines.
- Hop hornbeam
- an American tree of the genus Ostrya (Ostrya Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (Ostrya vulgaris).
- Hop moth
- 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
- a small American tree (Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops.
- Hop vine
- the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.
Hop
v. t.
- To impregnate with hops.
Hop
v. i.
- To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]