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Hops

noun

1.

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. Synonym: hop.

Hop

noun

1.

The act of hopping; jumping upward or forward (especially on one foot).

2.

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. Synonym: hops.

3.

An informal dance where popular music is played. Synonym: record hop.

verb

(past & past part. hopped; pres. part. hopping)

1.

Jump lightly. Synonyms: hop-skip, skip.

2.

Move quickly from one place to another.

3.

Travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.. "He hopped rides all over the country"

4.

Traverse as if by a short airplane trip.

5.

Jump across.

6.

Make a jump forward or upward.

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Etymology of 'Hops'

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hop-step-and-jump

Eastern hop hornbeam

Old World hop hornbeam

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"Hops" Quotes from Famous Books

... which Mr. Murdstone had sent him was a bare building with gratings on all the windows like a prison, and a high brick wall around it. It was owned by a man named Creakle, who had begun by raising hops, and had gone into the school business because he had lost all of his own and his wife's money and had no other way to live. He was fat and spoke always in a whisper, and he was so cruel and bad-tempered that not only the boys, but his ...

— Tales from Dickens • Charles Dickens and Hallie Erminie Rives

... is a favoured spot, Bertrand: ten minutes from the frontier: ten minutes from escape. Blessings on that frontier line! The criminal hops across, and lo! the reputable man. (Reading.) "'Auberge des Adrets,' by John Paul Dumont." A table set for company; this is fate: Bertrand, are we the first arrivals? An office; a cabinet; a cash-box—aha! ...

— The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson, Volume XV • Robert Louis Stevenson

... produce of the pepper-vine are not considerably injured by the chinkareen, which may rob it of its proper nourishment by exhausting the earth; and on this principle, in other of the eastern islands (Borneo, for instance), the vine is supported by poles in the manner of hops in England. Yet it is by no means clear to me that the Sumatran method is so disadvantageous in the comparison as it may seem; for, as the pepper-plant lasts many years, whilst the poles, exposed to ...

— The History of Sumatra - Containing An Account Of The Government, Laws, Customs And - Manners Of The Native Inhabitants • William Marsden

... See! One hops with frantic gesture, In my face to grin and hiss, See! It goads the frenzied horses Onward to the black abyss! In the darkness, like a paling One stands forth,—and now I see Him like walking-fire sparkling— Then the ...

— Russian Lyrics • Translated by Martha Gilbert Dickinson Bianchi

... Tom Gray. "They've got us this time!" growled Tom, starting down the bank, followed by Hippy and the yowling bull pup. Hippy saw a figure running from the bank of the river a little further upstream. It was a man, and he was running in short hops, as if he were using a stick or cane to assist ...

— Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders in the Great North Woods • Jessie Graham Flower

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