Hop Meaning
/hɒp/Definition, CEFR level B1, pronunciation, examples, and quiz.
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Definition
nounA short jump.
nounA jump on one leg.
Sentence Examples
Yes. And it's only a hop, skip and a jump to the nearest mall.
I just want to hop into my boat and sally forth into the great blueness.
He was trying to explain the difference between hip hop and rap.
Synonyms & Antonyms
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The frog used its strong legs to ____ from one lily pad to another.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The rabbit made a quick ____ over the small fence and disappeared into the high grass.
Word Origin & History
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”).
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"My fellow passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing short hops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield."
— 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
"When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail."
— 1918 September–November, Edgar Rice Burroughs, “The Land That Time Forgot”, in The Blue Book Magazine, Chicago, Ill.: Story-press Corp., →OCLC; republished as chapter V, in Hugo Gernsback, editor, Amazing Stories, (please specify |part=I to III), New York, N.Y.: Experimenter Publishing, 1927, →OCLC:
"They hop the curb and cut their engines."
— 2018 February, Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, in National Geographic, Washington, D.C.: National Geographic Society, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 14 Jun 2018:
"As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so I hop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on an XC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it."
— 2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, in Rail, page 68:
"We hopped on the freeway heading to LA and I looked over at the dashboard and saw the needle back on “E” and I told the guy, “Hey! You going to make it with the gas you got?""
— 2010, Tony Gin, My Blessed Demons, page 285:
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CEFR Practice Quiz
The frog used its strong legs to ____ from one lily pad to another.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
The rabbit made a quick ____ over the small fence and disappeared into the high grass.