hop

[ US /ˈhɑp/ ]
[ UK /hˈɒp/ ]
VERB
  1. make a jump forward or upward
  2. traverse as if by a short airplane trip
    Hop the Pacific Ocean
  3. travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.
    She hopped a train to Chicago
    He hopped rides all over the country
  4. jump lightly
  5. jump across
    He hopped the bush
  6. move quickly from one place to another
NOUN
  1. the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot)
  2. an informal dance where popular music is played
  3. 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
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How To Use hop In A Sentence

  • It would almost be better to have no backbench bills at all than the current system, which offers a false glimmer of hope. Times, Sunday Times
  • He hoped the roots would harbor the fungi and spread them throughout the compost, but the fungi didn't spread well enough.
  • The hat, I think the style was called fedora, had a dark band and a dint in the top, which my father would sometimes correct with a chopping action of his right hand.
  • Hopefully, North Norfolk will soon shake off this surreal obsession with the Lib Dems and embrace their NE Cambs neighbour's decent Tory stance. Will Iain Dale have to repay the donations ?
  • But yes, good of Prof. Adler, who I hope will be a little chary of Althousian pseudoreality in future. The Volokh Conspiracy » Taking the Washington Post to School
  • If there was any hope of holding on to even a shred of her dwindling self-respect, she should do exactly what she knew Margo would do—close the laptop, take her de-scrunchied, perfumed, and nearly thonged self down to the nearest club, pick up the first passably good-looking stranger who asked her to dance, and bring him back to the apartment for some safe but anonymous sex. Goodnight Tweetheart
  • Add the chopped tomatoes, chillis and refried beans to the casserole with a little salt and pepper. 5.
  • We cannot support all the shops we have already, so a few more very expensive units can only remain empty and unused.
  • The screen is a bit of overkill because the audience is not that far from the center of action on the hot shop floor.
  • This was just a few years after Lord Byron woke to find Child Harold's Pilgrimage in the bookshops and himself famous, as it were, overnight.
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