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Hop or hops may refer to:

• Hop, a kind of small jump, usually using only one leg
• Hop (plant), a genus of climbing flowering plants
• Hops, the female flower clusters of one species of hop, used primarily as a flavouring and stability agent in beer
• Hop, a type of dance, including:
  • Lindy Hop, a swing dance of the 1920s and 1930s
  • Sock Hop, an informal dance
• Hóp, a Viking name for what was possibly a part of the North American coast: see Vinland
• Hóp, an Icelandic lake
• Hop River, a river in Connecticut, USA
• Hop, informal term for opium, a narcotic drug
• Hop (software), a web broker and programming language
• Hop (networking), next gateway along a path to a destination host
• Hop (protein), the Hsp70-Hsp90 organizing protein
• Hop (telecommunications), a telecommunications term in several different contexts

See also

• Hopper (disambiguation)
• Hopping
• Hip hop

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Hop

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English

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

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Noun

hop (plural hops)

1. a short jump, a short journey
2. a dance

Translations

Verb

to hop (third-person singular simple present hops, present participle hopping, simple past and past participle hopped)

1. (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
2. (transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself.

   I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.

Synonyms

(jump a short distance): jump, leap

Related terms

Translations

Etymology 2

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Noun

hop (plural hops)

1. the plant (Humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed
2. (usually plural) the flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.

Derived terms

• hopback
• hoppy

Translations

Etymology 3

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Noun

hop (plural hops)

1. a narcotic drug, usually opium

Anagrams

• Anagrams of hop
• OHP
• pho
• pOH, POH

Danish

Etymology 1

From Old Norse hopp (“‘jump’”).

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɔp/, [hʌb̥]

Noun

hop n. (singular definite hoppet, plural indefinite hop)

1. jump

Inflection

Etymology 2

See hoppe.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /hɔp/, [hʌb̥]

Verb

hop

1. Imperative of hoppe.

French

Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}
• IPA: /hɔp/, SAMPA: /hOp/

Interjection

hop !

1. Voila!, hey presto!

Swedish

Pronunciation

•  audio^{help, file}

Noun

hop c. hop

1. heap, collection; a whole bunch

Related terms

• hopa