Hop
Hop (hop) , intransitive verb
[Old English hoppen to hop, leap, dance, Anglo-Saxon hoppian; akin to Icelandic & Swedish hoppa, Danish hoppe, Dutch huppelen, German hupfen.]
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. — Dryden
3.
To dance. — Smollett
Hop , noun
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. [Colloquial]
Collocations (1)
Hop, skip and jump or Hop, step and a jump or Hop, 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. a short distance.
Hop , noun
[Old English hoppe; akin to Dutch hop, hoppe, Old High German hopfo, German hopfen; compare Late Latin hupa, Welsh hopez, Armor. houpez, and Icelandic humall, SW. & Danish humle.]
1.
(Botany) 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.
Collocations (11)
Hop clover (Botany) , a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature (Trifolium agrarium, and Trifolium procumbens).
Hop flea (Zoology) , a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops.
Hop fly (Zoology) , an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines.
Hop froth fly (Zoology) , an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines.
Hop hornbeam (Botany) , an American tree of the genus Ostrya (Ostrya Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (Ostrya vulgaris).
Hop moth (Zoology) , 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 (Botany) , a small American tree (Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops.
Hop vine (Botany) , the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.
Hop , transitive verb
To impregnate with hops. — Mortimer
Hop , intransitive verb
To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]