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US
/ˈhɑp/
]
[ UK /hˈɒp/ ]
[ UK /hˈɒp/ ]
VERB
- make a jump forward or upward
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traverse as if by a short airplane trip
Hop the Pacific Ocean -
travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
She hopped a train to Chicago
He hopped rides all over the country - jump lightly
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jump across
He hopped the bush - move quickly from one place to another
NOUN
- the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
- an informal dance where popular music is played
- 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
How To Use hop In A Sentence
- It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
- Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
- He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
- But yes, good of Prof. Adler, who I hope will be a little chary of Althousian pseudoreality in future. The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
- Add the chopped tomatoes, chillis and refried beans to the casserole with a little salt and pepper. 5.
- We cannot support all the shops we have already, so a few more very expensive units can only remain empty and unused.
- This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
- For a very long time I loved the idea of writing but did very little - I published a few stories, and workshopped myself into submission.
- Should we no do a little what you call shopping for the babies, and haf a farewell feast tonight if I go for my last call at your so pleasant home?" he asked, stopping before a window full of fruit and flowers. Little Women
- The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
