1. to move with light bounding skips or leaps.
2. informal to move quickly or busily: the shipping department is hopping this week.
3. to jump on one foot.
4. to make a quick trip, especially in an airplane.
5. to travel or move often from place to place. often used in combination: party-hop.
6. to move over by hopping: hop a ditch two feet wide.
7. informal to jump aboard: hop a freight train.
8. A light springy jump or leap, especially on one foot.
9. A rebound: the ball took a bad hop.
10. informal A dance or dance party.
11. A short distance.
12. A short trip, especially by air.
13. A free ride; a lift.
14. hop, skip, and (a) jump A short distance.
15. hop to it to begin an activity or a task quickly and energetically.
16. A twining vine (humulus lupulus) having lobed leaves and green female flowers arranged in conelike spikes.
17. the dried ripe flowers of this plant, containing a bitter aromatic oil. they are used in the brewing industry to prevent bacterial action and add the characteristic bitter taste to beer.
18. slang opium.
19. to flavor with hops.
20. hop up slang to increase the power or energy of: hop up a car.
21. hop up slang to stimulate with or as if with a narcotic.

1. A short jump
2. A jump on one leg.
3. A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that take place on private plane.
4. A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
5. A dance.
6. the sending of a data packet from one host to another as part of its overall journey.
7. to jump a short distance.
8. to jump on one foot.
9. to be in state of energetic activity.
10. to suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
11. to move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
12. the plant (humulus lupulus) from whose flowers, beer or ale is brewed
13. the flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
14. opium, or some other narcotic drug.
15. a narcotic drug, usually opium

1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball.
3. A climbing plant (humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. it is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
4. the catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.
5. the fruit of the dog-rose. see hip.
6. to move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
7. to walk lame; to limp; to halt.
8. to dance.
9. to gather hops. [perhaps only in the form hopping, vb. n.]
10. to impregnate with hops.

1. to leap, or move by successive leaps or sudden starts; skip, as birds; frisk or dance about; spring; specifically, as applied to persons, to spring or leap with one foot.
2. to limp; halt; walk lame.
3. to dance.
4.
5. to jump over.
6. in cutting rasps, to carry (the punch) with a skipping movement the required distance between the teeth: as, to hop the punch.
7. to die.
8.
9. to treat with hops: as, to hop ale.
10. to pick or gather hops.
11. A leap, especially on one foot; a light spring.
12. A dance; a dancing-party.
13. A plant, humulus Lupulus, of the natural order Urticaceœ, with long twining stems and abundant 3- to 5-lobed leaves.
14. plural the flowers of this plant, as used in brewing, medicine, etc.
15. wood fit for hop-poles.
16. in tasmania, a leguminous shrub, Daviesia latifolia. also called bitter-leaf.
17. same as native hop .

1. travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
2. jump lightly
3. move quickly from one place to another
4. make a jump forward or upward
5. traverse as if by a short airplane trip
6. 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
7. the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
8. an informal dance where popular music is played
9. jump across