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Hop   /hɑp/   Listen
noun
Hip  n.  (Written also hop, hep)  (Bot.) The fruit of a rosebush, especially of the English dog-rose (Rosa canina); called also rose hip.
Hip tree (Bot.), the dog-rose.


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 and jump, Hop, step and a jump or Hop, step and jump,
1.
a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession.
2.
a short distance.


Hop  n.  
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 Trifolium procumbens).
Hop flea (Zool.), a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops.
Hop fly (Zool.), an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines.
Hop froth fly (Zool.), 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 (Ostrya Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (Ostrya vulgaris).
Hop moth (Zool.), 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.


verb
Hop  v. t.  To impregnate with hops.


Hop  v. i.  (past & past part. hopped; pres. part. hopping)  
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."
2.
To walk lame; to limp; to halt.
3.
To dance.


Hop  v. i.  To gather hops. (Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.)





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"Hop" Quotes from Famous Books



... theologic reasoning wrought into them an orthodox significance. As an example of this mixture of heathen with Christian magic, we may cite the following from a medieval medical book as a salve against "nocturnal goblin visitors": "Take hop plant, wormwood, bishopwort, lupine, ash-throat, henbane, harewort, viper's bugloss, heathberry plant, cropleek, garlic, grains of hedgerife, githrife, and fennel. Put these worts into a vessel, set ...
— History of the Warfare of Science with Theology in Christendom • Andrew Dickson White
... us, and the three blinds. After that, the conductor and the other shack swing aboard. But still my captor holds on to me. I see the plan. He is going to hold me until the rear of the train goes by. Then he will hop on, and I shall be ...
— The Road • Jack London
... commander's voice in jaunty tones. The soldiers passed in a semicircle round something where the ball had fallen, and an old trooper on the flank, a noncommissioned officer who had stopped beside the dead men, ran to catch up his line and, falling into step with a hop, looked back angrily, and through the ominous silence and the regular tramp of feet beating the ground in unison, one seemed to hear ...
— War and Peace • Leo Tolstoy
... my knees," said he, "and then, once on them, I can easily rise to my feet and hop ...
— Gascoyne, The Sandal Wood Trader - A Tale of the Pacific • R. M. Ballantyne
... and somehow or other Sandy, who was steering, let the canoe strike against a big rock. Over she went, with a hole knocked through her bows! Having no fancy to be drowned, I made a leap on to the rock, and shouting to my companions to follow, with many a hop, skip, and jump, managed to reach the shore; but when I looked out for the rest of us, I could nowhere see them. I shouted again and again, but they did not answer. My belafe is that they were all carried away and drowned. I sat down on the bank, and at last, as I had been awake for many a long ...
— Snow Shoes and Canoes - The Early Days of a Fur-Trader in the Hudson Bay Territory • William H. G. Kingston


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