🍻 A bar visitor 🍻 To visit bars

barhop

1 7.5

A person who visits several bars or pubs in one evening

noun
/ˈbɑːrˌhɑːp/

Informal

: recorrido de bares

The Blue Ridge barhop?

Examples

Last Saturday, the group decided to go on a barhop to explore the city's nightlife.
As a barhop, she loved discovering new drinks and meeting interesting people at each location.
The barhop stopped at three different pubs before ending the night at a lively dance club.

How Often

barfly

Slang

4 8.2

barhop

Informal

1 7.5

homebody

8 5.5

Surface Forms

barhop singular

barhops plural

Morphology

barhop = bar + hop (transparent) = bar + hop

The meaning is a direct combination of 'bar' + 'hop' (to 'hop' between bars), which a B1 learner can infer from the parts.

Etymology

Barhop combines bar ('a place to drink') and hop ('to jump' or 'move quickly'), so a barhop is someone who 'jumps' from bar to bar, visiting several in one evening.