hop
/hɑp/ verb C2- To jump a short distance.
- To jump on one foot.
- To be in state of energetic activity. · Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop.· The sudden rush of customers had everyone in the shop hopping.
- To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously. · 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.
- To jump onto, or over
- To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one. · We were party-hopping all weekend.· bar-hopping
- To go in a quick or sudden manner.
- To dance.
He/she/it hops · Past hopped · Past participle hopped · -ing form hopping
Verb forms
- Base form
- hop
- He/she/it
- hops
- Past
- hopped
- Past participle
- hopped
- -ing form
- hopping
Phrasal verbs and expressions
From the library
The birds still hopping on the tree,
Hopped upon the window sill,
Then Josie Pye dared Jane Andrews to hop on her left leg around the garden without stopping once or putting her right foot to the ground; which Jane Andrews gamely tried to do, but gave out at the third corner and had to confess herself defeated.
And I’m sure I couldn’t hop so far on one foot when Jane couldn’t even hop around the garden.”
Other matches
- hop A short jump. B1
- hop To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops... C2
- hop Synonym of half-op. C2
- hop A plant of species Humulus lupulus, native to n... C2
- hop about To jump around from place to place as a small b...
- hop in To enter a vehicle, especially a car.
- hop into To begin
- hop off To alight.
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