Standard Lemma guide

hop

name · noun · verb · 35 senses · updated from the 2026-07-25 local source snapshot

Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.

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Pronunciation

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  • UK: /hɒp/
  • rhymes with -ɒp
  • Canada, US: /hɑp/
  • California: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • Australian: /hɔp/
  • Australia: Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
  • CMU ARPABET: HH AA1 P Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.

1

name

Meaning 1

A surname from Dutch.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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2

name

Meaning 2

Synonym of Mari (etymology 3)

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: Mari

Antonyms: none provided

3

noun

Meaning 3

A short jump.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Examples

  • The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

4

noun

Meaning 4

A jump on one leg.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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5

noun

Meaning 5

A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

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6

noun

Meaning 6

A brief period of development or progress.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: figuratively, informal

Examples

  • For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

7

noun

Meaning 7

A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US

Topics: hobbies, lifestyle, sports

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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8

noun

Meaning 8

A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: UK, US, dated, slang

Examples

  • 1896, Benjamin Brierley, James Dronsfield, "Ab-o'th'-Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories One singing-room we had closed, and so damaged a "twopenny hop" that it could not have survived another season had our own prosperity continued unchecked.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

9

noun

Meaning 9

The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Topics: computing, engineering, mathematics, natural-sciences, networking, physical-sciences, sciences

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

10

noun

Meaning 10

A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to northern Europe, female flowers of which are used to flavour many types of beer during brewing.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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Synonyms: none provided

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11

noun

Meaning 11

The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: plural-normally

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

12

noun

Meaning 12

Opium, or some other narcotic drug.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: US, slang

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: aunti/aunti Emma, big O, chandu, Chinese tobacco, dopium, dream gun, dream stick, fi-do-nie, gee, God's medicine, gondola, goric, guma, hop/hops, meconium, midnight oil, mud, ope, pen yan, pin gon, pox, skee, toxy, when-shee, yen, ze, zero

Antonyms: none provided

13

noun

Meaning 13

The fruit of the dog rose; a hip.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

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14

noun

Meaning 14

Synonym of half-op.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Internet

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Meaning relationships

Synonyms: half-op

Antonyms: none provided

15

noun

Meaning 15

Ellipsis of John Hop (“a police officer”).

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: Australia, abbreviation, alt-of, ellipsis, slang

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

16

verb

Meaning 16

To jump a short distance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: jump, leap

Antonyms: none provided

17

verb

Meaning 17

To jump on one foot.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

18

verb

Meaning 18

To be in state of energetic activity.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

Examples

  • Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.
  • The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

19

verb

Meaning 19

To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

Examples

  • I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news.
  • He was trying to hop a ride in an empty trailer headed north.
  • He hopped a train to California.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

20

verb

Meaning 20

To jump onto, or over

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

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21

verb

Meaning 21

To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: in-compounds, intransitive, usually

Examples

  • We were party-hopping all weekend.
  • bar-hopping
  • We had to island-hop on the weekly seaplane to get to his hideaway.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

22

verb

Meaning 22

To go in a quick or sudden manner.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal, intransitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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23

verb

Meaning 23

To dance.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: informal

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

24

verb

Meaning 24

To walk lame; to limp.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: obsolete

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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25

verb

Meaning 25

To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: transitive

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

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26

verb

Meaning 26

To gather hops.

Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract

Usage: intransitive

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Synonyms: none provided

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27

noun

Meaning 27

the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

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Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: jump, jumping

28

noun

Meaning 28

an informal dance where popular music is played

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: record hop

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: dance

29

noun

Meaning 29

twining perennials having cordate leaves and flowers arranged in conelike spikes; the dried flowers of this plant are used in brewing to add the characteristic bitter taste to beer

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: hops

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: vine

Narrower terms: common hop, common hops, bine, European hop, Humulus lupulus, American hop, Humulus americanus, Japanese hop, Humulus japonicus

30

verb

Meaning 30

travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • She hopped a train to Chicago
  • He hopped rides all over the country

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: travel

31

verb

Meaning 31

jump lightly

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: skip, hop-skip

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: jump, leap, bound, spring

32

verb

Meaning 32

make a jump forward or upward

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: jump, leap, bound, spring

33

verb

Meaning 33

jump across

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • He hopped the bush

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: clear, top

34

verb

Meaning 34

traverse as if by a short airplane trip

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

Examples

  • Hop the Pacific Ocean

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: traverse, track, cover, cross, pass over, get over, get across, cut through, cut across

35

verb

Meaning 35

move quickly from one place to another

Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0

No example sentence was provided for this meaning.

Meaning relationships

Synonyms: none provided

Antonyms: none provided

Broader terms: move

History

Etymology

Borrowed from Dutch Hop.

From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”). Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Danish hoppe (“to hop, leap, jump”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).

From Middle English hoppe, from Middle Dutch hoppe, from Old Dutch *hoppo, from Proto-Germanic *huppô, possibly from Proto-Indo-European *(s)keup (“tuft, hair of the head”), referring to the plant's appearance. Cognate with German Hopfen and French houblon.

Across languages

Translations

180 source translations are retained for this English entry.

  • Arabic: نَقْز (naqz) — a short jump
  • Bulgarian: подскок (podskok) — a short jump
  • Chinese Mandarin: 跳躍 /跳跃 (tiàoyuè) — a short jump
  • Chinese Mandarin: 跳跃 (tiàoyuè) — a short jump
  • Cornish: lamm — a short jump
  • Danish: hop — a short jump
  • Finnish: hyppäys — a short jump
  • Finnish: hyppy — a short jump
  • Galician: salto — a short jump
  • Galician: chouto — a short jump
  • Galician: chimpo — a short jump
  • Galician: pulo — a short jump
  • Georgian: ნახტომი (naxṭomi) — a short jump
  • Ingrian: hyppy — a short jump
  • Italian: saltello — a short jump
  • Portuguese: salto — a short jump
  • Portuguese: pulinho — a short jump
  • Romanian: salt — a short jump
  • Russian: прыжо́к (pryžók) — a short jump
  • Russian: скачо́к (skačók) — a short jump
  • Scottish Gaelic: leum — a short jump
  • Spanish: salto — a short jump
  • Finnish: hyppy — sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey
  • Portuguese: hop — sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey
  • Southern Altai: куманак (kumanak) — plant
  • Armenian: գայլուկ (gayluk) — plant
  • Armenian: հմուլ (hmul) — plant
  • Bashkir: ҡомалаҡ (qomalaq) — plant
  • Basque: lupulu — plant
  • Bats: სვე (sve) — plant
  • Bulgarian: хмел (hmel) — plant
  • Catalan: llúpol — plant
  • Catalan: esparga — plant
  • Chinese Cantonese: 蛇麻草 (se4 maa4 cou2) — plant
  • Chinese Mandarin: 蛇麻草 (shémá cǎo) — plant
  • Chuvash: хӑмла (hămla) — plant
  • Czech: chmel — plant
  • Danish: humle — plant
  • Dutch: hop — plant
  • Esperanto: lupolo — plant
  • Estonian: humal — plant
  • Faroese: humli — plant
  • Finnish: humala — plant
  • French: houblon — plant
  • Galician: lúparo — plant
  • Galician: carrizo — plant
  • Georgian: სვია (svia) — plant
  • Georgian: ფშალა (pšala) — plant
  • German: Hopfen — plant
  • Greek: λυκίσκος (lykískos) — plant
  • Greek: ζυθόχορτο (zythóchorto) — plant
  • Greenlandic: sungarnitsussat — plant
  • Hungarian: komló — plant
  • Icelandic: humall — plant
  • Irish: leannlus — plant
  • Italian: luppolo — plant
  • Japanese: ホップ (hoppu) — plant
  • Khmer: ហប (hɑɑp) — plant
  • Korean: 홉 (hop) — plant
  • Korean: 호프 (hopeu) — plant
  • Latgalian: apeiņs — plant
  • Latin: lupulus — plant
  • Latvian: apinis — plant
  • Lithuanian: apynys — plant
  • Macedonian: хмељ (hmelj) — plant
  • Manx: ob — plant
  • Manx: sop — plant
  • Māori: hāpī — plant
  • Māori: hapi — plant
  • Mingrelian: ფშალე (pšale) — plant
  • Norwegian Bokmål: humle — plant
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: humle — plant
  • Old English: hymele — plant
  • Ossetian: хуымӕллӕг — plant
  • Persian: رازک (râzak) — plant
  • Persian: خمل (xemel) — plant
  • Polish: chmiel — plant
  • Portuguese: lúpulo — plant
  • Portuguese: pé-de-galo — plant
  • Romanian: hamei — plant
  • Romansh: vitrit — plant
  • Russian: хмель (xmelʹ) — plant
  • Northern Sami: uvlu — plant
  • Serbo-Croatian: хме̏љ — plant
  • Serbo-Croatian: hmȅlj — plant
  • Slovak: chmeľ — plant
  • Lower Sorbian: chmjel — plant
  • Upper Sorbian: chmjel — plant
  • Spanish: lúpulo — plant
  • Spanish: hombrecillo — plant
  • Swedish: humle — plant
  • Thai: ดอกฮ็อพ (dòk hóp) — plant
  • Turkish: şerbetçiotu — plant
  • Turkish: şerbetçi otu — plant
  • Ottoman Turkish: شربتجی اوتی (şerbetci otu) — plant
  • Ukrainian: хміль (xmilʹ) — plant
  • Vietnamese: hoa bia — plant
  • Volapük: humulaplan — plant
  • Volapük: humulaplanül — plant
  • Walloon: houbion — plant
  • Welsh: hopys — plant
  • Chinese Mandarin: 啤酒花 (píjiǔhuā) — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Chinese Mandarin: 酒花 (jiǔhuā) — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Czech: chmel — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Danish: humle — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Finnish: humala — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Galician: lúparo — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Georgian: სვია (svia) — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • German: Hopfen — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Greek: λυκίσκοι (lykískoi) — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Italian: luppolo — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Latvian: apiņi — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Macedonian: хмељ (hmelj) — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Norwegian Bokmål: humle — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Norwegian Nynorsk: humle — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Polish: chmiel — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Portuguese: lúpulo — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Romanian: hamei — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Russian: хмель (xmelʹ) — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Slovak: chmeľ — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Spanish: lúpulo — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Swedish: humle — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Ukrainian: хміль (xmilʹ) — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Volapük: humul — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Walloon: houbion — dried flowers of the hop plant
  • Arabic: نَقَزَ (naqaza) — jump a short distance
  • Armenian: թռչկոտել (tʻṙčʻkotel) — jump a short distance
  • Armenian: թռվռալ (tʻṙvṙal) — jump a short distance
  • Bulgarian: подскачам (podskačam) — jump a short distance
  • Catalan: saltar — jump a short distance
  • Catalan: saltironar — jump a short distance
  • Catalan: saltironejar — jump a short distance
  • Cebuano: lukso — jump a short distance
  • Chinese Mandarin: 跳過 /跳过 (tiàoguò) — jump a short distance
  • Danish: hoppe — jump a short distance
  • Dutch: huppen — jump a short distance
  • Esperanto: hopi — jump a short distance
  • Finnish: hypätä — jump a short distance
  • Finnish: hyppiä — jump a short distance
  • French: sauter à cloche-pied — jump a short distance
  • Galician: choutar — jump a short distance
  • Galician: pinchar — jump a short distance
  • Georgian: ხტომა (xṭoma) — jump a short distance
  • Georgian: ხტის (xṭis) — jump a short distance
  • Georgian: დახტის (daxṭis) — jump a short distance
  • German: hüpfen — jump a short distance
  • Hebrew: קפיצה דילוג — jump a short distance
  • Hungarian: (fel)hoppan — jump a short distance
  • Icelandic: hoppa — jump a short distance
  • Ingrian: hyppiä — jump a short distance
  • Italian: saltellare — jump a short distance
  • Japanese: 跳ねる (haneru) — jump a short distance
  • Māori: hītoko — jump a short distance
  • Māori: hīkeikei — jump a short distance
  • Māori: hīteki — jump a short distance
  • Māori: tūpekepeke — jump a short distance
  • Māori: hītekiteki — jump a short distance
  • Māori: tarapekepeke — jump a short distance
  • Māori: māhitihiti — jump a short distance
  • Portuguese: pulinhar — jump a short distance
  • Portuguese: pulicar — jump a short distance
  • Russian: подпры́гивать (podprýgivatʹ) — jump a short distance
  • Russian: подпры́гнуть (podprýgnutʹ) — jump a short distance
  • Russian: подска́кива́ть (podskákivátʹ) — jump a short distance
  • Russian: подскочи́ть (podskočítʹ) — jump a short distance
  • Scottish Gaelic: leum — jump a short distance
  • Spanish: saltar — jump a short distance
  • Spanish: dar saltitos — jump a short distance
  • Swedish: hoppa — jump a short distance
  • Swedish: skutta — jump a short distance
  • Turkish: sekmek — jump a short distance
  • Ottoman Turkish: سكمك (sekmek) — jump a short distance
  • Dutch: hinkelen — to hop on one leg
  • Finnish: hyppiä yhdellä jalalla — to hop on one leg
  • Ingrian: klingata — to hop on one leg
  • Italian: saltàr su — to suddenly take transport
  • Russian: пры́гать (prýgatʹ) — to suddenly take transport
  • Russian: пры́гнуть (prýgnutʹ) — to suddenly take transport
  • Ottoman Turkish: بینمك (binmek) — to suddenly take transport
  • Dutch: hoppen — impregnate with hops