to hop
- verb
- /hɑp/
- Hop in the back seat, Emma.
- hop on one foot
- hop and jump
- hop and run
They're not, they're not hopping down the street.
- They're not, they're not hopping down the street.
Examples
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You can hop up, you can get in.
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Let's all watch the baby goats hop around.
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Oh, I just wish he would hop off the box and hang out with us.
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Yeah, hop in my fair lady.
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I got out of the shuttle and started to hop around on Mars.
Academic text (1990) -
Suddenly and without warning, he hops up on the running board of the car.
Fiction book (1993) -
"Come on," he says, flinging open the door and beginning to hop down the corridor.
Fiction book (1992) -
The boys toss stones into a circle drawn in the dirt and hop in and out of the circle.
Fiction book (1991) -
Louise's car pulls over and he hops in the back seat.
Fiction book (1991) -
The child laughed with joy as he began to hop along the path, balancing on one foot.
Synonyms
To move quickly away from a surface after hitting it, moving up and down in a springy way
To jump quickly from one place to another or make something jump
To move suddenly by jumping, leaping, or bouncing
To move by light hops in a playful way
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Compounds
A medium-sized tree with thin flaky bark and hop-like fruit groups found in eastern North America
A track event where an athlete does a hop, a step, then a long jump in one run
- Jargon
A device in an airsoft gun that makes plastic BBs spin backwards to fly straighter and farther
A medium-sized tree that loses its leaves in winter and has hard wood and attractive bark
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Etymology
The verb hop comes from a simple action word that copies the quick jump, like a short leap or spring. So to hop is 'to jump' or to move with small, quick jumps.