hop

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
hop1

▶verb (hops, hopping, hopped)

• 1 move by jumping on one foot.

  ■ (of a bird or animal) move by jumping with two or all feet at once.

  ■ jump over.

  ■ (hop in) informal get into (a vehicle).

• 2 informal move or go quickly.

  ■ (hop it) Brit. go away.

  ■ (usu. as noun hopping) pass quickly from one place to another: island-hopping.

▶noun

• 1 a hopping movement.

• 2 a short journey or distance.

• 3 an informal dance.

– phrases
hop, skip (or step), and jump

• 1 old-fashioned term for triple jump.

• 2 informal a short distance.

on the hop Brit. informal

• 1 unprepared.

• 2 busy.

– origin OE hoppian, of Gmc origin.

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hop2

▶noun

• 1 (hops) the dried cone-like flowers of a twining climbing plant, used in brewing to give a bitter flavour and as a mild sterilant.

  ■ Austral./NZ informal beer.

• 2 the plant from which hops are obtained. [Humulus lupulus.]

• 3 US informal, dated opium or another narcotic.

▶verb (hops, hopping, hopped)

• 1 flavour with hops.

• 2 (be hopped up) informal be intoxicated by or as if by a narcotic drug.

– derivatives
hoppy adjective .

– origin ME hoppe, from Mid. Low Ger. or MDu.