hopn.1
/hɒp/, U.S. /hɑp/ 1. (Usually in plural.)
a. The ripened cones of the female hop-plant (see 2), used for giving a bitter flavour to malt liquors, and as a tonic and soporific.
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the world > animals > by locomotion > locomotion of animals > [noun] > hop or jump
hopc1440
buck-jump1861
pig-jump1910
the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > hops
hopc1440
old olds1892
olds1892
Bramling1899
Northdown1971
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant > parts of
hopc1440
gut1573
bell1594
hop-boll1652
hop-vine1707
bine1727
hop-bind1733
bind1792
hop-bine1813
lupulin1823
bur1832
rough bine1846
pin1885
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding condiments or used in food preparation > [noun] > used to flavour beer > hop-plant > hops
hopc1440
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 245/2 Hoppe, sede for beyre..hummulus, secundum extraneos.
1500–1600 Chester Pl. (Shaks. Soc.) II. 82 When I was a brewer longe With hoopes I made my ale stronge.
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. lxxxxiiij/2 x. quarters malte, ij. quarters wheet, ij. quarters ootes, xl. ll weight of hoppys. To make lx. barellis of sengyll beer.
1542 A. Borde Compend. Regyment Helth x. sig. F.iiv Bere is made of malte, of hoppes, and water, it is a naturall drynke for a dutche man. And nowe of late dayes it is moche vsed in Englande to the detryment of many englysshe men.
1545 in W. H. Stevenson Rec. Borough Nottingham (1885) III. 224 Duas libras hoppes pro vd.
1617 F. Moryson Itinerary iii. 147 The English Beere is famous in Netherland..made of Barley and Hops; for England yeelds plenty of Hops.
1654 J. Trapp Comm. Job xxxix. 13 They were wont to say here, that Peacocks, Hops, and Heresie, came first into England in one and the same ship.
1711 London Gaz. No. 4848/1 An Act for laying a Duty upon Hops.
1881 C. Whitehead Hops 61 The hops are picked into bins, long, light, wooden frames, with sacking bottoms.
b. Beer. Also (as hop) in combinations. Chiefly Australian and New Zealand slang.
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > beer > [noun]
beerc1000
jug1715
swipes1796
gatter1818
pongelo1859
neck oil1860
pig's ear1880
slop1904
suds1904
hop1929
wallop1933
keg1945
turps1945
brewski1977
1929 W. R. Burnett Little Caesar vi. iv. 218 That dame's full of hop.
1930 Bulletin (Sydney) 1 Jan. 11/4 The proprietor provided a beer party, and the riot that arose out of the hop-drinking led to the school's first raid.
1940 F. Sargeson Man & Wife (1944) 24 Before Bill came back half a dozen Maoris had shouted her, and each time she had less than half a glass of beer... She was keen enough on the hops he said, but she was like that.
2.
a. A climbing perennial diœcious plant ( Humulus lupulus, N.O. Urticaceæ, suborder Cannabineæ), with rough lobed leaves shaped like those of the vine; the male plant bears pentamerous flowers which grow in drooping panicles; the female bears green cones or catkins consisting of broad scales each with two flowers at the base. The plant is a native of Europe, and is much cultivated for its cones, esp. in Bavaria, Belgium, England, and the United States: see 1.The plant is believed to have been introduced into the south of England from Flanders between 1520 and 1524.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant
hop1538
hop-vine1707
bine1732
red bine1763
Golding1794
whitebine1798
green bind1805
hop-plant1817
grape hop1838
fuggle1898
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding condiments or used in food preparation > [noun] > used to flavour beer > hop-plant
hop1538
hop-vine1707
hop-plant1817
1538 W. Turner Libellus de re Herbaria at Lvpvs salictarivs Hoppes.
1562 W. Turner 2nd Pt. Herball f. 42v I can fynd no mention of hoppes in any olde autor, sauing only in Pliny.
1572 L. Mascall tr. in Bk. Plant & Graffe Trees 86 To choose your Hoppe. Ye shal choose your roots best for your Hop, in the Sommer before ye shall plant them.
1647 R. Sanderson Serm. II. 197 A hop, for want of a strong pole, will wind it self about a thistle or nettle or any sorry weed.
1754 D. Hume Hist. Great Brit. I. App. (R.) The planting of hops increased much in England during this reign.
1872 D. Oliver Lessons Elem. Bot. (new ed.) ii. 232 The Hop..is remarkable amongst the Nettle Family for its twining stem.
b. Locally applied to Medicago lupulina and Bryonia dioica; in Australia to species of Dodonæa and Daviesia. bog hop, a local name for Buckbean ( Menyanthes trifoliata).
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > buckbean
buck-bean1578
marsh clover1597
marsh trefoil1597
water trefoil1597
bog bean1785
threefold1788
water trefoil1860
bog hop1866
bog trefoil1884
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > medicks
medick?1440
snail clover1548
heart trefoil1597
snails1629
melilot trefoil1677
Barbary buttons1712
black-seed1763
snail-plant1767
black medick1778
heart liver1792
snail-shell medick1796
spotted medick1825
hop1866
Calvary clover1882
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 727/2 M[edicago] lupulina..generally known by farmers as the Hop Trefoil, or Hop.
1876 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. (rev. ed.) II. Suppl. 1306/1 Hop, Native, the seed-vessels of Dodonœa which are used in the same manner as the common hop in the manufacture of beer.
1879 J. Britten & R. Holland Dict. Eng. Plant-names Hop, Bog..In allusion to its well-known bitter properties and place of growth.
3. as thick as hops (? referring to the plants when grown in rows, or to the crowded catkins of flowers); also as fast as hops, as mad as hops (? with play on hop n.2).
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > in/into one place, company, or mass [phrase] > crowded together
in pressa1450
as thick as hops1590
1590 ‘Pasquil’ First Pt. Pasquils Apol. sig. C They must be throwne ouer the Pulpit as thicke as hoppes.
1630 J. Taylor Peace of France in Wks. 322 At the Bake-houses, as thicke as hops The tatling women..thy fourefold praises knead.
1677 M. Nedham 2nd Pacquet Advices 54 'Tis to be answer'd too as fast as Hops now.
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical x. 110 Other Amusements presented themselves as thick as Hops.
1884 Harper's Mag. Oct. 695/2 Such a grin! It made me mad as hops.
4. A narcotic drug; spec. opium.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s)
opiate?a1425
dope1886
hop1887
Peter1899
quill1916
junk1921
narcotic1926
stuff1929
mojo1935
sugar1935
gear1954
narco1954
sauce1975
opie1992
Scooby Snack1996
the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > an intoxicating drug > [noun] > a) narcotic drug(s) > opium
poppyOE
opiec1385
opiuma1398
afion1542
meconium1601
mud1852
yen she1882
smoke1884
dope1886
hop1887
twang1898
weed1918
gow1922
yen1926
tar1935
gee1936
1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 14 May 4/2 As long as a smoker can obtain his ‘hop’.
1903 G. Ade In Babel 110 Me settin' around on my shoulder-blades lookin' like one o' these bamboo boys full o' hop.
1911 C. B. Chrysler White Slavery xi. 89 When a ‘fiend’ is full of ‘hop’ he is cunning as the devil.
1916 T. Burke Limehouse Nights (1917) 260 Lois..began to ‘cook’ for her boy... She..dug out the treacly hop..and held it against the flame.
1924 G. Bronson-Howard Devil's Chaplain vi. 97 It was he who controlled the available supply of ‘hop’.
1933 C. de Lenoir Hundredth Man iv. 63 ‘Sure,’ I replied, ‘but what are you going to do when you can't get a card of “hop” for love or money?’
1955 U.S. Senate Hearings (1956) VIII. 4161 Opium in the underworld is referred to [as]..‘hop’.
Compounds
C1. General attributive.
a.
hop-bud n.
hop-cone n.
hop-dealer n.
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[see hop-porter n. at Compounds 2].
hop-dryer n.
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1875 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. Hop-dryer, a chamber in which hops are artificially dried..Also called oast or hop-kiln.
1891 Daily News 12 Sept. 3/6 Hop-dryers earn about 7s. per day.
hop-duty n.
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1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Hop-duty, a tax of about two-pence per pound, levied on hops.
hop-frame n.
hop-growing n.
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1880 Times 10 Sept. 9/4 It would be cause for general regret..were English hop-growing to languish and die out.
hop-harrow n.
hop-harvest n.
hop-plantation n.
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1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon vii. 206 The valley in which are these hop-plantations, is formed by sharp hills rising very abruptly from the plain below.
hop-prop n.
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1664 J. Evelyn Sylva xvii. §6 The Timber [of the poplar] is incomparable..for Vine, and Hop-props, and divers viminious works.
hop-setter n.
hop-top n.
b. (In sense 4.)
hop-dream n.
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the world > physical sensation > sleeping and waking > sleep > dream > [noun] > induced by drugs
opium dream1821
hop-dream1896
1896 H. M. Blossom Checkers viii. 169 Half the time I think that I must be asleep, and trying to ‘cash a hop-dream’.
1931 E. Linklater Juan in Amer. v. 401 I listened like I was in a hop-dream.
1934 J. M. Cain Postman always rings Twice xiv. 159 ‘That paper..was still in the files, see?’.. ‘You mean that hop dream she called a confession?’
hop-pipe n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > equipment for taking drugs > equipment for taking opium
pipe1779
layout1869
hop toy1881
toy1881
yen hock1882
yen siang1882
hop-pipe1887
yen hop1901
cooker1905
cooking spoon1917
stem1925
1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 21 May 4/1 The rising smoke that curls up from the bowl of the ‘hop’ pipe.
1926 H. Crane Let. 19 Jan. (1965) 259 He might as well be in elfin land with a hop pipe in his mouth.
C2. Special combinations. Also hop-dog n., garden n., etc.† hop-boll n. Obsolete the seed-vessel of the hop.
hop-back n. [back n.2] a vessel with a perforated bottom for straining off the hops from the liquor in the manufacture of beer.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > strainer
theadc1400
huckmuck1472
jack back1764
wilch1823
hop-jack1875
hop-back1888
1888 F. Faulkner Theory & Pract. Mod. Brewing (ed. 2) ix. 145 The well-boiled wort filtered from hops and coagulated precipitate—and what this amounts to is seen under the false-bottom plates of hop-back—left on cooler floor..undergoes..evaporation.
1892 H. E. Wright Handy Bk. Brewers i. 20 The boiling having lasted from one and a half to two hours..the copper is ‘turned out’ or ‘struck’, the boiling wort, hops and all, rushing out through an opened valve or tap into the hop-back, a vessel sometimes rectangular, sometimes circular in shape.
1937 ‘N. Blake’ There's Trouble Brewing ii. 51 ‘Shall I send a man to look in the hop-back?’ he added. ‘The hop-back?’ asked Nigel mystified. ‘That's right. Where the wort drains into.’
hop-bag n. a large bag of coarse cloth for packing hops.
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society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > bag > [noun] > sack > for other specific contents
sand-poke1415
hopsack1481
coal sack1574
hop-bag1604
sugar-bag1764
nutsack1842
bale-sack1883
sugar sack1891
1604 T. Middleton Blacke Bk. in Wks. (1885) VIII. 22 Apparelled..in a wicked suit of coarse hop-bags.
1733 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. (ed. 2) at Lupulus Two or three times in a Day the Binn must be emptied into a Hop-bag made of coarse Linen Cloth.
hop-bagging n. the cloth of which this is made.
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the world > textiles and clothing > textiles > textile fabric or an article of textile fabric > textile fabric > textile fabric made from specific material > made from flax, hemp, or jute > [noun] > other
handleband1532
burlap1695
hop-bagging1705
gunny1711
burrass1808
Hessian1881
hop-sacking1884
1705 Overseers' Accts. Wakes Colne (Essex) (Essex Rec. Office: D/P/88/12/1) Paid for hop baginge for Clarke and Woodward.
1845 Encycl. Metrop. VI. 58 Light wooden frames called binges..are clothed with hop-bagging, into which the hops are picked off the poles.
hop-bind n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant > parts of
hopc1440
gut1573
bell1594
hop-boll1652
hop-vine1707
bine1727
hop-bind1733
bind1792
hop-bine1813
lupulin1823
bur1832
rough bine1846
pin1885
1733 Act 6 Geo. II c. 37 §6 If any Person maliciously cut any Hop-binds growing on Poles in any Plantation of Hops [etc.].
hop-bine n. the climbing stem of the hop-plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant > parts of
hopc1440
gut1573
bell1594
hop-boll1652
hop-vine1707
bine1727
hop-bind1733
bind1792
hop-bine1813
lupulin1823
bur1832
rough bine1846
pin1885
1813 Examiner 3 May 279/2 The hop bine said to come up very strong.
1846 J. Tylden in J. Baxter Libr. Pract. Agric. (ed. 4) II. 33 Using the old hop-bines in the hop-garden, instead of burning or otherwise wasting them.
hop bitters n. a kind of unfermented liquor flavoured with hops.
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the world > food and drink > drink > decoction > [noun] > of herbs, seeds, or bark
sorrela1400
cinnamon-water1589
borage-water1620
sage drink1747
sage juice1747
seed water1747
mauby1790
sabzi1804
gentian1840
Angostura1856
gentian bitter1864
sage gargle189.
hop bitters1894
rooibos1911
1894 Lancet 3 Nov. 1054 Other preparations affording excellent malt liquor substitutes are the hop bitters and hop stout.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant > parts of
hopc1440
gut1573
bell1594
hop-boll1652
hop-vine1707
bine1727
hop-bind1733
bind1792
hop-bine1813
lupulin1823
bur1832
rough bine1846
pin1885
1652 W. Blith Eng. Improver Improved xxvi. 179 It may do best of all, if the hop bowl or husk be but cut and shattered as aforesayd.
hop-bush n. an Australian shrub belonging to the genus Dodonæa.
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the world > plants > particular plants > trees and shrubs > non-British trees or shrubs > Australasian trees > [noun] > other Australasian trees or shrubs
burrawang1826
water gum1826
kaikomako1832
karaka1834
kawa-kawa1838
peppermint1838
bottle tree1844
ngaio1849
Grevillea1853
red birch1853
wooden pear1860
muskwood1866
sugar-tree1866
tulip-tree1866
hop-bush1883
mock orange1884
mountain beech1884
sage tree1884
tile-seed1884
mutton-bird scrub1889
red birch1889
silver-tree1889
whalebone-tree1889
budda1890
camphor laurel1894
pepperbush1895
mustard bush1898
willow myrtle1898
pigeon wood1899
horizontal scrub1909
turkey-bush1911
pandani1923
mock orange1929
1883 F. M. Bailey Synopsis Queensland Flora 82 The capsules of many Dodonaeas are used for hops, and thus the shrubs are known as hop-bushes.
1936 F. Clune Roaming round Darling xvii. 163 Lemon-bushes, minus the lemon, and a hop-bush, not hopping; but O'Malley said the old people used this bush for making bread.
1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 108 A thick patch of hop bush.
hop-clover n. = hop-trefoil n.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil
white clovereOE
cloverc1000
hare-foota1300
clerewort?a1400
clover-grassa1400
three-leaved grass14..
trefoilc1400
sucklingc1440
four-leaved grassc1450
trefle1510
Trifolium?1541
trinity grass1545
Dutch1548
lote1548
hare's-foot1562
lotus1562
triple grass1562
blain-grass1570
meadow trefoil1578
purple grass1597
purplewort1597
satin flower1597
cithyse1620
true-love grass?a1629
garden balsam1633
hop-clover1679
Burgundian hay1712
strawberry trefoil1731
honeysuckle trefoil1735
red clover1764
buffalo-clover1767
marl-grass1776
purple trefoil1785
white trefoil1785
yellow trefoil1785
sulla1787
cow-grass1789
strawberry-bearing trefoil1796
zigzag trefoil1796
rabbit's foot1817
lotus grass1820
strawberry-headed trefoil1822
mountain liquorice1836
hop-trefoil1855
clustered clover1858
alsike1881
mountain clover1882
knop1897
Swedish clover1908
sub clover1920
four-leaf clover1927
suckle-
1679 London Gaz. No. 1383/4 A way to cleanse Trefoil or Hopclover Seed from their husk.
1736 Compl. Family-piece iii. 349 Hop-clover, Trefoil or three-leaved Grass, are both finer and sweeter than the great Clover-grass.
hop-cushion n. = hop-pillow n.
hop-dresser n. one who cultivates hops, a hop-grower.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > hops > hop-grower
hop-planter1663
hop-dresser1685
hop-grower1880
1685 in J. M. Cowper Canterb. Marr. Licences (1892–1906) 4th Ser. 397 Robert Rye of Barham, hop dresser. May 21.
hop-factor n. a dealer in hops (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858).
hop fiend n. slang = hophead n. 1.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > drug addiction or craving > [noun] > drug addict > addicted to opium
pipe1779
pipe-fiend1889
opiumate1894
hop fiend1898
hophead1911
hoppy1922
1898 L. J. Beck N.Y. Chinatown xviii. 165 A hop fiend went on a weary stroll, In search of a friend who a pill could roll.
1911 C. B. Chrysler White Slavery xi. 89 Opium smokers, ‘hop fiends’ or ‘hop heads’ as they are called, are the fiercest of all the White Slavers.
hop-flea n. a very small beetle ( Phyllotreta (or Haltica) concinna), destructive to the hop-plant.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > order Coleoptera or beetles and weevils > [noun] > Polyphaga (omnivorous) > superfamily Phytophaga or Chrysomeloidea > family Chrysomelidae > member of genus Haltica (turnip-flea)
turnip-fly1733
flea1805
turnip-beetle1816
flea-beetle1842
turnip-flea1842
hop-flea1880
1880 Chambers's Encycl. Hop-flea..does much mischief in hop-plantations in spring.
hop-fly n. a species of aphis ( Phorodon humuli), destructive to the hop-plant.
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the world > animals > invertebrates > phylum Arthropoda > class Insecta > subclass Pterygota > [noun] > division Exopterygota or Hemimetabola > order Hemiptera > suborder Homoptera > family Aphis > phorodon humuli (hop-fly)
hop-fly1830
1830 Mr. Hatch in J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 263 The almost instantaneous appearance of the hop-fly.
1834 Penny Cycl. II. 156/2 We may refer to the hop-fly.
hop frog-fly n. a species of froth-fly, ( Aphrophora interrupta or Amblycephalus interruptus), destructive to the hop-plant.
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1868 Chambers's Encycl. Suppl. Hop Froth-fly, or Hop Frog-fly..sometimes appears in great numbers in hop-grounds, and does considerable mischief.
hop froth-fly n. = hop frog-fly n.
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1868 [see hop frog-fly n.].
hop-grower n. one who grows hops as a crop.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > hops > hop-grower
hop-planter1663
hop-dresser1685
hop-grower1880
1880 Times 10 Sept. 9/4 Our hop-growers have continued to hold their own.
hop-hill n. (see hill n. 3b).
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > hops > heap round plant
hop-hill1707
1707–12 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husb. 145 Dissolved dung..to enrich your Hop-hills.
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 549 It will be wrong to attempt to grow any other crop between the rows of hop-hills.
hop hornbeam n. (see hornbeam n.).
hop-jack n. = hop-back n.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > strainer
theadc1400
huckmuck1472
jack back1764
wilch1823
hop-jack1875
hop-back1888
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) I. 515 A shallow vessel or cooler, over which is placed the hop-jack or sieve for straining out the spent-hops.
hop joint n. slang an opium den.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > place for injecting drugs > place for taking opium
opium den1843
opium joint1882
hop joint1887
hop-pad1946
1887 Lantern (New Orleans) 4 June 5/2 The police..raided them ‘hop joints’.
1915 J. London Jacket xvi. 212 Chinatown dumps and hop-joints.
1923 E. Wallace Clue of New Pin xix. 167 ‘Running a philanthropic hop joint?’ asked the other sarcastically.
1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) i. 25 They find they are nothing but speak~easies, although one is a hop joint.
1935 A. J. Pollock Underworld Speaks 58/2 Hop joint, a place where opium is bought and smoked by addicts.
hop-kiln n. a kiln for drying hops; an oast.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > kiln
oastOE
malt-kiln1538
malting kiln1641
east1669
plate kiln1738
cockle oast1743
hop-kiln1784
hop-oast1818
cockle stove1877
sirocco1890
1784 Lett. to Honoria & Marianne II. 75 By the way, he stopped to cheapen two hundred of hop-poles, and to inspect his new hop-kiln.
1808 C. Vancouver Gen. View Agric. Devon vii. 205 The hop-kiln is occasionally otherwise employed than in drying hops.
hop marjoram n.
hop-maund n. a vessel used in breweries.
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1868 Gloss. Sussex Words in D. E. Hurst Horsham (1889) Hop-mand.
hop medick n. species of marjoram n., medick n.
hop-mildew n. a parasitic fungus of genus Sphærotheca, infesting the hop.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > poisonous or harmful plants > harmful or parasitic fungi > [noun] > causing disease in plants
bunt1800
Sclerotium1813
Alternaria1834
oidium1836
Septoria1836
conk1851
Rhizopus1854
snow-mould1855
vine-mildew1855
vine-fungus1857
bramble-brand1867
Microsphaera1871
wood-fungus1876
sphacelia1879
blue mould1882
orange fungus1882
cluster-cup1883
hop-mildew1883
powdery mildew1886
cladosporium1887
shot-hole fungus1897
verdet1897
wound-fungus1897
fusarium1907
verticillium1916
rhynchosporium1918
coral-spot1923
blind-seed fungus1939
sclerotinia1950
1883 Encycl. Brit. XVI. 294/1 The Hop-Mildew..is a parasitic disease of the hop.
hop-nidget n. (see nidget n.2).
hop-oast n. a kiln for drying hops (Simmonds Dict. Trade 1858).
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > malting > [noun] > kiln
oastOE
malt-kiln1538
malting kiln1641
east1669
plate kiln1738
cockle oast1743
hop-kiln1784
hop-oast1818
cockle stove1877
sirocco1890
1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Hop-oast, in Kent, a kiln for drying hops.
a1887 R. Jefferies Field & Hedgerow (1889) 106 The shapely cone of the hop-oast rises at the end.
hop-oil n. an acrid oil obtained from hops.
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society > occupation and work > materials > derived or manufactured material > extracted or refined oil > [noun] > other plant-derived oils
oil de baya1398
oil roseta1400
alkitranc1400
laurinec1400
oil of spicac1400
seed oil1400
rape oil1420
nut-oil?c1425
masticine?1440
oil de rose?1440
oil of myrtine?a1450
gingellya1544
rose oil1552
alchitrean1562
oil of spike1577
oil of ben1594
myrtle oil1601
sesamus1601
sampsuchine1616
oil of walnuts1622
rape1641
oil of rhodium1649
rapeseed oil1652
neroli1676
oil of mace1681
spirit of scurvy-grass1682
beech-oil1716
poppy oil1737
castor oil1746
oil of sassafras1753
orange-peel oil1757
wood-oil1759
bergamot1766
sunflower oil1768
Russia oil1773
oil castor1779
tung-yu1788
poppy-seed oil1799
cocoa butter1801
sassafras oil1801
phulwara1805
oil of wine1807
grass oil1827
oil of marjoram1829
cajuput oil1832
essence of mustarda1834
picamar1835
spurge oil1836
oenanthic ether1837
tea oil1837
capnomor1838
cinnamon-oil1838
oil of mustard1838
orange-flower oil1838
resinein1841
mustard oil1844
myrrhol1845
styrol1845
oenanthol1847
shea butter1847
wintergreen1847
gaultheria oil1848
ginger-grass oil.1849
nutmeg oil1849
pine oil1849
peppermint oil1850
cocoa fat1851
orange oil1853
neem oil1856
poonga oil1857
xanthoxylene1857
crab-oil1858
illupi oil1858
Shanghai oil1861
stand oil1862
mustard-seed oil1863
carap oilc1865
cocum butter or oilc1865
Kurung oil1866
muduga oil1866
pichurim oil1866
serpolet1866
sumbul oil1868
sesame oil1870
niger oil1872
summer yellow1872
olibene1873
patchouli oil1875
pilocarpene1876
styrolene1881
tung oil1881
becuiba tallow1884
soy oil1884
tea-seed oil1884
eucalyptus1885
sage oil1888
hop-oil1889
cotton-seed oil1891
lemon oil1896
palmarosa oil1897
illipe butter1904
hydnocarpus oil1905
tung1911
niger seed oil1917
sun oil1937
vanaspati1949
fennel oil-
1889 H. F. Morley & M. M. P. Muir Watts' Dict. Chem. At the base of the membranous cones of the hop there is a bitter yellow powder called lupulin..When distilled with steam it yields hop oil, which consists of a terpene C10 H16, and various compounds containing oxygen.
hop-pad n. slang = hop joint n.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > place for injecting drugs > place for taking opium
opium den1843
opium joint1882
hop joint1887
hop-pad1946
1946 M. Mezzrow & B. Wolfe Really Blues xiv. 245 A little..coal bin..we cleaned out and converted into our hop-pad.
hop-pillow n. a pillow stuffed with hops to produce sleep.
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society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > bedding > [noun] > pillow or bolster > filled with hops
hop-pillow1834
1834 R. Southey Doctor I. 9 Lettuces, cowslip-wine, poppy-syrup,..hop-pillows, spiders'-web pills.
1884 M. Wilkins in Harper's Mag. Oct. 792/1 There was a hop pillow in a little linen case.
hop-plant n. = sense 2; also applied to species of Origanum.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant
hop1538
hop-vine1707
bine1732
red bine1763
Golding1794
whitebine1798
green bind1805
hop-plant1817
grape hop1838
fuggle1898
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > labiate plant or plants > [noun] > marjoram
organOE
marjorama1393
origanuma1398
origan?1440
organuma1450
orgament1552
grove marjoram1578
goat's marjoram1597
goat's organy1597
orgamy1609
field marjoram1640
origany1728
hop-plant1817
mastic1852
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding condiments or used in food preparation > [noun] > used to flavour beer > hop-plant
hop1538
hop-vine1707
hop-plant1817
1817 J. Bradbury Trav. Amer. 43 On the sides of the hills I noticed abundance of the hop plant.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 822/2 These last [Origanum Dictamnus, and O. sipyleum] are popularly called Hop plants, and are often seen in cottage windows.
hop-planter n. = hop-grower n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > hops > hop-grower
hop-planter1663
hop-dresser1685
hop-grower1880
1663–4 MS Canterbury Marriage Licences Joh'es Dodd, civitatis Cant., hopplanter.
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 538 I would advise every young hop-planter never to stick a plough in his hop-ground.
hop-pocket n. (see pocket n. and adj.).
hop-porter n. a man employed to carry sacks of hops.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > other manual or industrial workers > [noun] > porter > types of
wine-porter1580
street porter1606
tackle-house porter1606
tackle-porter1607
sealed porter1631
ticket-porter1646
tub-woman1660
keep-door1682
Suisse1763
bamboo-coolie1800
hop-porter1812
plyer1826
night porter1841
fellowship1864
hall-porter1883
mobber1892
redcap1903
badgeman1904
bummaree1954
1812 Examiner 5 Oct. 636/2 A hop-porter..made oath, that..he hired himself..to Mr. G. S., a hop-dealer.
hop-press n. a machine for expressing the liquid from hops after boiling.
hop-shim n. a horse-hoe used in hop cultivation.
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the world > food and drink > farming > tools and implements > [noun] > mattock, hoe, or hack > hoe > horse-hoe
shim1723
hoe-plough1731
horse-hoe1731
hoe-break1742
nidget1743
hop-shim1807
idget1875
1807 R. W. Dickson Pract. Agric. (new ed.) I. 44 Hop-shim, this implement is constructed with a frame, somewhat in the manner of the common wheel~barrow.
hop-tier n. a person employed to tie the hop-bines to the poles.
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the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > cultivation of plants or crops > cultivation of specific crops > [noun] > hops > hop-grower > specific processes
poler1727
overpoling1742
pole-puller1756
hop-tier1848
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 555 It is not necessary for the hop-tiers to wait until there are three bines for every pole long enough to tie.
hop toy n. slang a container used for smoking opium.
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the world > physical sensation > use of drugs and poison > [noun] > equipment for taking drugs > equipment for taking opium
pipe1779
layout1869
hop toy1881
toy1881
yen hock1882
yen siang1882
hop-pipe1887
yen hop1901
cooker1905
cooking spoon1917
stem1925
1881 Med. Record (N.Y.) 5 Nov. 512/1 I procured a full outfit for smoking [opium]..: A pipe, a small glass lamp,..and a buffalo-horn box (hop toy) for holding the opium.
1887 in Amer. Speech (1948) 23 246/2 The roller dips his yenhook into the shell or hoptoy, and conveys the opium over the lamp to cook it, which takes but a few seconds.
1926 J. Black You can't Win xvii. 238 At last the little horn container, the ‘hop toy’, is empty.
1955 U.S. Senate Hearings (1956) VIII. 4162 Hop toy—container for smoking opium.
hop-tree n. a North American shrub or small tree ( Ptelea trifoliata), family Rutaceæ, with bitter fruit which has been used as a substitute for hops.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding condiments or used in food preparation > [noun] > used to flavour beer > hop-tree
shrubby trefoil1597
hop-tree1877
1877 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms (ed. 4) Hop-tree,..the fruit, a wafer-like seed, grows in clusters.
1890 Chambers's Encycl. Hop-tree..also called Shrubby Trefoil, is planted as an ornamental plant.
hop-trefoil n. a name for yellow clover ( Trifolium procumbens), from the resemblance of its withered flower-heads to the cones of the hop; also applied to the hop medick, Medicago lupulina.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > leguminous plants > [noun] > clover or trefoil
white clovereOE
cloverc1000
hare-foota1300
clerewort?a1400
clover-grassa1400
three-leaved grass14..
trefoilc1400
sucklingc1440
four-leaved grassc1450
trefle1510
Trifolium?1541
trinity grass1545
Dutch1548
lote1548
hare's-foot1562
lotus1562
triple grass1562
blain-grass1570
meadow trefoil1578
purple grass1597
purplewort1597
satin flower1597
cithyse1620
true-love grass?a1629
garden balsam1633
hop-clover1679
Burgundian hay1712
strawberry trefoil1731
honeysuckle trefoil1735
red clover1764
buffalo-clover1767
marl-grass1776
purple trefoil1785
white trefoil1785
yellow trefoil1785
sulla1787
cow-grass1789
strawberry-bearing trefoil1796
zigzag trefoil1796
rabbit's foot1817
lotus grass1820
strawberry-headed trefoil1822
mountain liquorice1836
hop-trefoil1855
clustered clover1858
alsike1881
mountain clover1882
knop1897
Swedish clover1908
sub clover1920
four-leaf clover1927
suckle-
1855 Loudon's Encycl. Plants (new ed.) 648 Hop-trefoil..is cultivated along with the perennial clover.
1866 J. Lindley & T. Moore Treasury Bot. II. 1170/1 The Procumbent or Hop Trefoil of the botanist..must not be confounded with the Hop Trefoil of the farmer, which is the Medicago lupulina.
hop-vine n. the trailing stem or bine of the hop-plant, or the whole plant.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant
hop1538
hop-vine1707
bine1732
red bine1763
Golding1794
whitebine1798
green bind1805
hop-plant1817
grape hop1838
fuggle1898
the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [noun] > hop-plant > parts of
hopc1440
gut1573
bell1594
hop-boll1652
hop-vine1707
bine1727
hop-bind1733
bind1792
hop-bine1813
lupulin1823
bur1832
rough bine1846
pin1885
the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular food plant or plant product > yielding condiments or used in food preparation > [noun] > used to flavour beer > hop-plant
hop1538
hop-vine1707
hop-plant1817
1707 J. Mortimer Whole Art Husbandry 138 Have the Poles without Forks, otherwise it will be troublesome to part the Hop-Vines and the Poles.
1884 Harper's Mag. Aug. 440/1 The cultivation of the hop vine.
hop-yeast n. yeast prepared from an infusion of hops.
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > brewing > [noun] > yeast
yeastc1000
ale yeasta1450
neaving1681
beer-yeast1857
gravel1882
hop-yeast1884
pitching yeast1885
bee1923
1884 M. Wilkins in Harper's Mag. Oct. 790/1 She made hop yeast.
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hopn.2
/hɒp/, U.S. /hɑp/ 1.
a. An act, or the action, of hopping; a short spring or leap, esp. on one foot.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > hopping > a hop
hop1508
hitch1799
1508 W. Dunbar Goldyn Targe (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems (1998) I. 184 For mirth of May wyth skippis and wyth happis.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique ii. l. 323 [He] is lead by the hops and skips, turnings and windings of his braine.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues Cahot, the iumpe, hop, or iog of a coach, etc., in a rugged, or uneven, way.
1783 W. Beckford Dreams viii. 103 All of a hop with toads and locusts.
1888 Longman's Mag. XI. 453 I thought I'd take the ball on the hop.
b. humorously. A leap or step in dancing (cf. sense 2).
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society > leisure > dancing > movements or steps > [noun] > step > other steps
reprise1521
double1531
reprinse1531
single1531
hop1579
cross-pointa1592
trip1601
back-tricka1616
inturna1627
shorta1652
coupee1673
cut1676
fleuret1677
bourrée step or pas de bourrée1706
contretemps1706
cross-step1728
boring1775
pigeon wing1807
pas de basque1818
cross-cut1842
flicflac1852
buckle-covering1859
reverse1888
reversing1892
cross-stepping1893
box step1914
jump turn1924
moonwalk1969
coupé-
1579 S. Gosson Schoole of Abuse f. 15v He gaue dauncers great stipends for selling their hopps.
1812 W. Tennant Anster Fair iv. xiv. 79 And scour with majesty of hop the ground.
c. to catch (also take) on the hop: to take unawares, to surprise, to catch in the act.
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the mind > mental capacity > expectation > surprise, unexpectedness > surprise, astonish [verb (transitive)] > take by surprise
oppressa1382
susprisea1400
swikec1400
supprisec1405
catchc1425
to take (a person) at advantage(s)1523
to take (also rarely catch, find) a person tardy1530
to take tarde1547
to take (a person) short1553
to catch (also take) (a person) nappinga1576
preoccupate1582
surprise?1592
overcomea1616
to take (or catch)‥unawaresa1616
to take at a surprise1691
to catch (also take) on the hop1868
to catch (a person) bending1910
wrong-foot1957
1868 in J. S. Farmer & W. E. Henley Slang (1893) III. 15/2 For to catch me on the hop..You must wake up very early in the morning.
1872 R. D. Blackmore Maid of Sker I. xxv. 301 He caught me on the hop; at a moment of rumours and serious warnings.
1887 Brit. Med. Jrnl. 21 May 1103/1 The attendants taking him, as it were, ‘on the hop’.
1927 R. A. Freeman Certain Dr. Thorndyke i. xi. 173 The police..caught him fairly on the hop with all the stolen property in his possession.
1947 ‘N. Shute’ Chequer Board iii. 68 But when you catch them on the hop, then you got to be plenty tough.
1959 New Statesman 14 Nov. 654/2 Some months ago our second child caught us on the hop and Jean had him here in this two roomed house.
1973 A. Behrend Samarai Affair viii. 83 Ships are wayward things, and she may have taken a sudden turn which caught Gosling on the hop.
d. That distance which can be or is traversed in an aircraft or motor vehicle at one stretch; one stage of a long-distance journey.
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society > travel > air or space travel > [noun] > a flight through air or space > a stage of
hop1909
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > [noun] > a ride in a vehicle > distance which can be traversed in
hop1909
1909 Flight 3 July 398/1 M. Breguet has a biplane there and has made one or two short ‘hops’.
1927 Daily News 7 June 7/1 By flying from New York to Eisleben..in one hop.
1931 D. Runyon Guys & Dolls (1932) x. 214 Finally after an extra long hop in an automobile we come to the outskirts of a..little burg.
1954 A. Huxley Let. 9 May (1969) 707 We leave for Cairo the day after tomorrow..then proceed to Beirut, Damascus and Istambul—short hops by air.
1958 Observer 10 Aug. 5/8 Companies..operate their jets on a number of economically valuable short hops.
1968 K. Weatherly Roo Shooter 69 They had about three hundred miles to go, and because of the road conditions they decided to do it in two hops.
e. Radio. A transmission path from one point on the earth to another that involves a single reflection from some region of the atmosphere.
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society > communication > telecommunication > radio communications > [noun] > transmission paths
hop1939
moon-bounce1960
1939 Proc. IRE 27 640/2 The great-circle multiple-hop mode of propagation usually observed during all-daylight-path periods with 18-megacycle signals.
1966 Electronics 17 Oct. 137 This 178-mile tropo hop will connect Flyingsdales [sic] Moor, a ballistic missile early warning radar site..to Martlesham Heath.
f. to go on the hop (also to play the hop): to play truant. Cf. hop v.1 Phrases 2. slang.
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society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant
to play truant1560
mitch1580
mooch1622
to trig it1796
plunk1808
minch1836
wag1847
to play hookey1848
to hop the wag1861
to play (the) wag1861
to hook Jack1877
to bag school1934
to go on the hop1959
1959 I. Opie & P. Opie Lore & Lang. Schoolchildren xvii. 372 A truant may also..be said to be..‘hopping it’ (in Rochdale ‘going on the hop’).
1968 L. Berg Risinghill 15 Another boy said: I got the cane for playing the hop... Playing the hop, and fighting.
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g. long hop (Cricket): see long adj.1 and n.1 Compounds 4d.
2. slang or colloquial.
a. A dance; a dancing-party, esp. of an informal or unceremonious kind.
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society > leisure > dancing > ball or dance > [noun] > informal
hop1731
kick-upc1781
carpet-dance1846
shindig1871
stomp1926
jump-up1948
1731 Read's Weekly Jrnl. 9 Jan. Near an hundred people of both sexes..dancing to the musick of two sorry fiddles..it was called a three-penny hop.
1745 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) II. 335 Our little hop..was appointed for Wednesday.
1771 T. Smollett Humphry Clinker I. 246 The vulgar..now thrust themselves into all assemblies, from a ridotto at St. James's, to a hop at Rotherhithe.
1797 Sporting Mag. 10 73 The most famous Dancing Assembly, or, as it is vulgarly called, the genteelest Hop, that ever was known in London.
1831 Countess Granville Lett. (1894) II. 98 On Friday, at my hop, it was known that there was a majority against us.
1880 Scribner's Monthly 20 917/2 A party of youths and..maidens..dressed for a hop.
1892 R. Kipling Barrack-room Ballads 64 To dance with blowzy housemaids at the regimental hops.
1948 J. Betjeman Sel. Poems 115 You going to the Hanks's hop to-night?
1970 D. M. Davin Not here, not Now ii. iii. 65 What about coming to the Arts Faculty bob hop on Saturday?
b. on the hop: on the go, with no chance to relax, busy, active; enjoying oneself.
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the world > action or operation > doing > activity or occupation > occupied or busy [phrase]
at work?1440
at it1609
in (full) play1669
on the run1795
on the trot1822
on the hop1863
on the job1882
for (or on) the (high) jump1884
as busy as a nailer1899
1863 T. Thompson in E. Corvan et al. Choice Collection Tyneside Songs 129 Wiv some varry canny chiels, All on the hop and murry.
1892 E. J. Milliken 'Arry Ballads 22 A fierce-looking party, all elbows, was likeways A deal on the 'op.
1908 G. H. Lorimer Jack Spurlock iv. 78 I'd been on the hop ever since morning, for being in love with Anita was a strenuous calling.
1923 J. Manchon Le Slang 158 To be on the hop, être en bombe.
1952 A. Huxley Let. 29 Sept. (1969) 652 C is kept on the hop all the time, fetching, carrying, shopping etc.
3. hop, step, and jump n. (also hop, skip, and jump, hop, step, and leap) .
a. The action of making these three movements in succession; an athletic exercise in which the players try who can cover most ground with this sequence of movements. Also spec. as an athletic event, and transferred and figurative. Also hop, step, and long jump. Hence hop, step, and jumper.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [noun] > hopping > hop, step, and jump
hop, step, and jump1713
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > jumping > triple jump
hop, step, and jump1713
society > leisure > sport > types of sport or game > athletics > [noun] > specific athletic sports other than running > jumping > triple jump > jumper
hop, step, and jumper1928
1713 J. Addison Guardian No. 112 When my Wings are on, [I] can go above a hundred Yards at a Hop, Step and Jump.
1760 L. Sterne Life Tristram Shandy I. xii. 62 Yorick..would as often answer with a pshaw!—and if the subject was started in the fields,—with a hop, skip, and a jump, at the end of it.
1786 R. Burns Holy Fair iii, in Poems 42 The third cam up, hap-step-an'-loup, As light as ony lambie.
1810 W. Scott Let. 20 May (1932) II. 340 I omitted no opportunity..of converting my dog-trot into a hop-step-and-jump.
1816 F. Burney Lett. 2 Apr. Your kind father..instantly ran downstairs, with a hop, skip, and a jump.
1819 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 5 613/1 A match at hop-step-and-jump between Tickler and Dr. Scott.
1858 H. Mayhew Upper Rhine (1860) v. §2. 265 It seems literally but a hop, skip, and a jump, from one..shelf of crags to the other.
1906 Westm. Gaz. 30 Apr. 7/1 The preliminaries of the hurdles, standing high jump, hop-step, and long jumps will also be decided.
1908 Times 7 July 16/5 July 25..10 a.m.—Athletics— hop, step, and jump.
1908 Times 25 July 10/1 The hop, step, and jump fell to the United Kingdom, when an Irishman, T. J. Ahearne, created a British record of 48 ft. 11¼ in.
1909 Daily Chron. 24 Sept. 9/3 The hop-step-and-long-jump handicap.
1928 Observer 17 June 28/4 The only hop, step, and jumper of quality.
1935 Encycl. Sports, Games & Pastimes 349/2 Hop-Step-and-Jump, Athletic event, of very ancient practice in the North of the British Isles. Now included in the Olympic Games, it has become the object of much specialization. Known also as the hop, skip and jump.
1961 H. Chapman & H. Abrahams Track & Field Athletics x. 71 It is not often that a Hop, Step and Jump athlete is able to use the more efficient Hitch-kick long jump action.
1966 Publ. Amer. Dial. Soc. xlvi. 21 The paper had to be a hop, skip, and jump through the various sorts of annotations that Schele De Vere had made.
b. attributive or as adj. Of the nature of, or characterized by, such a saltatory motion. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adjective] > hopping > of the nature of or characterized by
hop, step, and jump1783
hoppity1888
hoppy1902
1783 ‘P. Pindar’ More Lyric Odes to Royal Academicians vii. 16 A hop, and step, and jump mode of inditing.
1808 W. Scott Autobiogr. in J. G. Lockhart Mem. Life Scott (1837) I. i. 44 Surprise that, after such a hop-step-and-jump perusal, I knew as much of the book.
1869 F. B. Palliser Brittany 248 The dancers..sidle round in a kind of hop-skip-and-a-jump step.
1895–6 Cal. Univ. Nebraska 233 It is not designed to give a hop-skip-and-jump star lecture course.
c. As v. intransitive. To make this movement; to proceed with irregular saltatory action. Also figurative.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > hop > hop, step, and jump
hop, step, and jump1815
1815 Sheridan Let. to Mrs. Sheridan 27 Apr. Mind I don't hop, step, and jump through a book as some certain people do.
1891 L. B. Walford Mischief of Monica III. 21 We pay the porter..and hop-skip-and-jump into the train.
d. Used as adverbial phrase.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > [adverb] > by or with hopping > hop, step, and jump
hop, step, and jump1906
1906 Smart Set June 102/1 To go hop, skip and jump over the earth's surface.
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Hopn.3
/hɒp/, U.S. /hɑp/, Australian English /hɔp/ Australian slang.
A policeman.
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society > law > law enforcement > police force or the police > [noun] > policeman
truncheon officer1708
runner1735
horny1753
nibbing-cull1775
nabbing-cull1780
police officer1784
police constable1787
policeman1788
scout1789
nabman1792
nabber1795
pig1811
Bow-street officer1812
nab1813
peeler1816
split1819
grunter1823
robin redbreast1824
bulky1828
raw (or unboiled) lobster1829
Johnny Darm1830
polis1833
crusher1835
constable1839
police1839
agent1841
johndarm1843
blue boy1844
bobby1844
bluebottle1845
copper1846
blue1848
polisman1850
blue coat1851
Johnny1851
PC1851
spot1851
Jack1854
truncheonist1854
fly1857
greycoat1857
cop1859
Cossack1859
slop1859
scuffer1860
nailerc1863
worm1864
Robert1870
reeler1879
minion of the law1882
ginger pop1887
rozzer1888
nark1890
bull1893
grasshopper1893
truncheon-bearer1896
John1898
finger1899
flatty1899
mug1903
John Dunn1904
John Hop1905
gendarme1906
Johnny Hop1908
pavement pounder1908
buttons1911
flat-foot1913
pounder1919
Hop1923
bogy1925
shamus1925
heat1928
fuzz1929
law1929
narker1932
roach1932
jonnop1938
grass1939
roller1940
Babylon1943
walloper1945
cozzer1950
Old Bill1958
cowboy1959
monaych1961
cozzpot1962
policeperson1965
woolly1965
Fed1966
wolly1970
plod1971
roz1971
Smokey Bear1974
bear1975
beast1978
woodentop1981
Five-O1983
dibble1990
Bow-street runner-
1923 D. H. Lawrence Kangaroo xvi. 356 It's our boys who've got things in hand. And handed them over to the Hops.
1933 Bulletin (Sydney) 8 Feb. 12 The Hops were taking the shattered body out of the water.
1959 S. J. Baker Drum ii. 118 Hop, a policeman.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1976; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
hopv.1
/hɒp/, U.S. /hɑp//hɒpt/. Also Middle English oppe, Middle English–1500s hoppe, 1500s– Scottish hap. 1. intransitive.
a. To spring a short way upon the ground or any surface with an elastic or bounding movement, or a succession of such movements: said of persons, animals, and things.Formerly a general synonym of leap; now implying a short or undignified leap (perhaps by association with sense 1b).
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > a short distance
hopc1000
c1000 Ælfric Homilies I. 202 Ða blissode min cild on minum innoðe, and hoppode ongean his Drihten.
c1230 Hali Meid. 17 And te deoueles hoppen.
1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (Rolls) VII. 285 Þanne Lanfrank hopped for joye.
a1398 J. Trevisa tr. Bartholomaeus Anglicus De Proprietatibus Rerum (BL Add. 27944) (1975) II. xviii. iv. 1115 The lombe hoppeþ and lepeþ tofore þe folk [emended in ed. to flok].
c1440 York Myst. xxxi. 164 O! my harte hoppis for joie.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) 1 Kings xviii. 26 They [Baal's priests] hopped aboute the altare, as their vse was to do.
1535 Bible (Coverdale) Ps. lxvii[i]. 16 Why hoppe ye so, ye greate hilles?
1590 E. Spenser Faerie Queene ii. i. sig. N5 If any drop Of liuing blood yet in her veynes did hop.
1597 A. Montgomerie Cherrie & Slae 17 I sawe the Hurchone and the Haire..that hopping to and fro.
1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 181 The fawne..that plaid skipping and hopping round about him.
1758 T. Gray Let. 8 Mar. in Corr. (1971) II. 566 Mr. Shenstone..goes hopping along his own gravel-walks, and never deviates from the beaten paths.
1758 in J. Doran ‘Mann’ & Manners at Court of Florence (1876) II. i. 18 Count Lorenzi hopped in, in the evening.
1824 W. Scott Redgauntlet I. xi. 226 Bullets happed aff his buff-coat like hail-stanes from a hearth.
b. spec. Of animals: to move by leaps with both or all the feet at once, as opposed to walking or running: said esp. of small birds, frogs, grasshoppers, sand-hoppers, fleas, and the like.
ΚΠ
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 246/1 Hoppyn as fleys, or froschys, or other lyke, salio.
1600 W. Shakespeare Midsummer Night's Dream v. ii. 24 Hop as light as birde from brier. View more context for this quotation
1657 R. Ligon True Hist. Barbados 60 They are a kind of Stares, for they walk, and do not hop as other birds.
1790 A. Wilson Poems 191 But lanely, lanely aye I'll hap, 'Mang aul' stane-dykes an' braes.
a1845 T. Hood Mermaid of Margate ix She hopt like a Kangaroo!
c1850 Arabian Nights (Rtldg.) 405 The bird..flew upon the table..hopping from dish to dish.
1871 R. Ellis tr. Catullus Poems iii. 9 The sparrow..Hopping round her, about her, hence or hither.
c. Of a person: to spring or leap on one foot, or move onwards by a succession of such leaps.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > leap, spring, or jump [verb (intransitive)] > hop
hipc1275
hop1700
hitch1868
1700 T. Brown Amusem. Serious & Comical vi. 57 They [sc. women] Hop always upright with one Foot upon the Ground.
1711 R. Steele Spectator No. 6. ⁋2 A Man..hopping instead of walking.
1872 T. H. Huxley Lessons Elem. Physiol. (ed. 6) vii. 165 The thigh~bone of the leg..is bent up towards the body and not used, in the action of hopping.
2. To dance (for which it is now only a playful expression); also with cognate object.
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society > leisure > dancing > [verb (intransitive)]
frikec1000
sail1297
dancec1300
sault1377
tripc1386
balea1400
hopc1405
foota1425
tracec1425
sallyc1440
to dance a fita1500
fling1528
to tread a measure, a dance1577
trip1578
traverse1584
move1594
to shake heels1595
to shake it1595
firk1596
tripudiate1623
pettitoe1651
step1698
jink1718
to stand up1753
bejig1821
to toe and heel (it)1828
morris1861
hoof1925
terp1945
c1405 (c1390) G. Chaucer Reeve's Tale (Hengwrt) (2003) Prol. l. 22 We hoppe alwey, whil þt the world wol pipe.
c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 246/1 Hoppyn, or skyppyn.., salto.
a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 233 He hoppet lyk a pillie wanton.
1546 J. Heywood Dialogue Prouerbes Eng. Tongue ii. vii. sig. Kv Where all thy plesure is, hop hoore, pype theefe?
1791 J. Wolcot Magpie & Robin in Wks. (1812) II. 475 And hops like modern Beaus in Country-dances.
1806 Morn. Herald in Spirit of Public Jrnls. (1807) X. 266 She..snapped the small bone of her right leg in hopping a reel with Lord Sligo.
1825 J. T. Brockett Gloss. North Country Words Hop, to dance.
3. To limp.
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the world > movement > progressive motion > walking > walk, tread, or step [verb (intransitive)] > limp
haltc825
cripplec1220
hip1440
limp1570
linch1570
claudicate1623
hop1700
crimple1754
hilch1786
crutch1828
hamble1828
dot1843
peg-leg1969
1700 J. Dryden tr. Homer 1st Bk. Ilias in Fables 217 The limping Smith..hopping here and there (himself a Jest).
1720 D. Defoe Mem. Cavalier 250 Away he hops with his Crutch.
1814 D. H. O'Brien Narr. Captiv. & Escape 46 I insisted upon their leaving me in the rear, to hop on and struggle for myself..I..limped on with the assistance of my club.
4. transitive.
Thesaurus »
a. To hop about (a place).
b. To hop or jump over.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > cause to jump [verb (transitive)] > cause to hop > hop over
hop1791
1791 J. Wolcot Rights of Kings in Wks. (1812) II. 423 Poor Bird, whom fate oft cruelly assails..To hop a garden, and hunt snails.
1899 N.E.D. at Hop Mod. I could hop that easily.
c. To jump on to (a moving vehicle); to obtain (a ride, a lift) in this way; to catch (a train, etc.). colloquial (originally U.S.).
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society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride a vehicle [verb (transitive)] > enter a vehicle
take1654
board1848
jump1875
hop1909
1909 W. Stevens Let. 21 Jan. (1967) 125 I used to ‘hop’ coal-trains and ride up the Lebanon Valley.
1918 in F. A. Pottle Stretchers (1930) 214 The other day, I hopped a truck and went ‘to the front’.
1929 Lit. Digest 30 Nov. 30/2 Boys are predominantly the ones who ‘hop’ rides on trucks, trains and other vehicles.
1935 M. M. Atwater Murder in Midsummer xiii. 117 Before midnight he intended to hop the twelve-twenty out.
1940 J. Cary Charley is my Darling xlii. 167 I hopped a lorry once with Su, half-way to Twyport.
1967 C. O. Skinner Madame Sarah (new ed.) vi. 119 She and some friends hopped a train for Liverpool and drove to the Cross Zoo.
5. To cause to hop.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > upward movement > leaping, springing, or jumping > cause to jump [verb (transitive)] > cause to hop
hop1860
1860 Earl Dundonald Autobiogr. Seaman I. xv. 260 These guns were got on board by means of hawsers carried from the frigate to the cliff, one end being made fast to the masthead. By the application of the capstan and tackles the guns were thus hopped on board.
Phrases
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society > authority > punishment > capital punishment > execute [verb (intransitive)] > be beheaded
to hop headlessc1330
to lose one's headc1405
c1330 King of Tars (Auch.) l. 1097 in Englische Studien (1889) 11 59 Hou þe Sarrazins þat day Opped heued-les [c1390 Vernon Hopped hedles] for her pay.
a1450 (a1338) R. Mannyng Chron. (Lamb.) (1887) i. l. 1082 Hedles schal þou hop.
1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie Hist. Scotl. (1895) II. 9 Mony ane of the cheif nobilitie..the Bruse gart hap heidles.
1610 A. Cooke Pope Ioane 123 All the time of Pope Ioane, the Church hopt headlesse.
1630 R. Norton tr. W. Camden Hist. Princesse Elizabeth i. 130 Lest she saw ere long those on whom she most leaned, hop headlesse.
1681 T. Frankland Ann. King James & King Charles I 17 All these Honors rather helped him forwards to hop Headless for Felony.
P2. to hop the twig: to depart, go off, or be dismissed suddenly; (also simply to hop, to hop off) to die. to hop the wag: to play truant. slang.
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the world > life > death > [verb (intransitive)]
forsweltc888
sweltc888
adeadeOE
deadc950
wendeOE
i-wite971
starveOE
witea1000
forfereOE
forthfareOE
forworthc1000
to go (also depart , pass, i-wite, chare) out of this worldOE
queleOE
fallOE
to take (also nim, underfo) (the) deathOE
to shed (one's own) blood?a1100
diec1135
endc1175
farec1175
to give up the ghostc1175
letc1200
aswelta1250
leavea1250
to-sweltc1275
to-worthc1275
to yield (up) the ghost (soul, breath, life, spirit)c1290
finea1300
spilla1300
part?1316
to leese one's life-daysa1325
to nim the way of deathc1325
to tine, leave, lose the sweatc1330
flit1340
trance1340
determinec1374
disperisha1382
to go the way of all the eartha1382
to be gathered to one's fathers1382
miscarryc1387
shut1390
goa1393
to die upa1400
expirea1400
fleea1400
to pass awaya1400
to seek out of lifea1400–50
to sye hethena1400
tinea1400
trespass14..
espirec1430
to end one's days?a1439
decease1439
to go away?a1450
ungoc1450
unlivec1450
to change one's lifea1470
vade1495
depart1501
to pay one's debt to (also the debt of) naturea1513
to decease this world1515
to go over?1520
jet1530
vade1530
to go westa1532
to pick over the perch1532
galpa1535
to die the death1535
to depart to God1548
to go home1561
mort1568
inlaikc1575
shuffle1576
finish1578
to hop (also tip, pitch over, drop off, etc.) the perch1587
relent1587
unbreathe1589
transpass1592
to lose one's breath1596
to make a die (of it)1611
to go offa1616
fail1623
to go out1635
to peak over the percha1641
exita1652
drop1654
to knock offa1657
to kick upa1658
to pay nature her due1657
ghost1666
to march off1693
to die off1697
pike1697
to drop off1699
tip (over) the perch1699
to pass (also go, be called, etc.) to one's reward1703
sink1718
vent1718
to launch into eternity1719
to join the majority1721
demise1727
to pack off1735
to slip one's cable1751
turf1763
to move off1764
to pop off the hooks1764
to hop off1797
to pass on1805
to go to glory1814
sough1816
to hand in one's accounts1817
to slip one's breatha1819
croak1819
to slip one's wind1819
stiffen1820
weed1824
buy1825
to drop short1826
to fall (a) prey (also victim, sacrifice) to1839
to get one's (also the) call1839
to drop (etc.) off the hooks1840
to unreeve one's lifeline1840
to step out1844
to cash, pass or send in one's checks1845
to hand in one's checks1845
to go off the handle1848
to go under1848
succumb1849
to turn one's toes up1851
to peg out1852
walk1858
snuff1864
to go or be up the flume1865
to pass outc1867
to cash in one's chips1870
to go (also pass over) to the majority1883
to cash in1884
to cop it1884
snuff1885
to belly up1886
perch1886
to kick the bucket1889
off1890
to knock over1892
to pass over1897
to stop one1901
to pass in1904
to hand in one's marble1911
the silver cord is loosed1911
pip1913
to cross over1915
conk1917
to check out1921
to kick off1921
to pack up1925
to step off1926
to take the ferry1928
peg1931
to meet one's Maker1933
to kiss off1935
to crease it1959
zonk1968
cark1977
to cark it1979
to take a dirt nap1981
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > hastily or suddenly
fleec825
warpa1400
wringc1400
bolt1575
decamp1751
mog1770
to hop the twig1797
to take (its, etc.) wing1806
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
vamoose1834
fade1848
skedaddle1862
to beat it1906
blow1912
to hop it1914
beetle1919
bug1950
jet1951
society > education > learning > learner > [verb (intransitive)] > to play truant
to play truant1560
mitch1580
mooch1622
to trig it1796
plunk1808
minch1836
wag1847
to play hookey1848
to hop the wag1861
to play (the) wag1861
to hook Jack1877
to bag school1934
to go on the hop1959
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham II. 279 Must look in upon the rich old jade, before she hops off.
1797 M. Robinson Walsingham IV. 280 [He] kept his bed three days, and hopped the twig on the fourth.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hop, to die.
1828 W. Carr Dial. Craven (ed. 2) Hop, ‘to hop the twig’, to run away in debt.
1861 H. Mayhew London Labour (new ed.) III. 113/2 I used to hop the wag from school.
1870 M. Bridgman Robert Lynne II. xiv. 289 If old Campbell hops the twig.
1903 J. London People of Abyss xxiii. 280 The boy told a certain bishop, ‘At ten we 'ops the wag...’ Which is to say, at ten they play truant.
1959 Guardian 24 Oct. 4/5 Episodic truancy during the last year at school—known as ‘hopping the wag’.
1964 M. Todd Ever Such a Nice Lady iii. 30 The two of them had ‘hopped the wag’ from school one afternoon.
P3. hop step (skip) and jump: see hop n.2 3c.
P4. to hop it: to be off, go away quickly.
ΘΚΠ
the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going away > go away [verb (intransitive)] > go away suddenly or hastily
fleec825
runOE
swervea1225
biwevec1275
skip1338
streekc1380
warpa1400
yerna1400
smoltc1400
stepc1460
to flee (one's) touch?1515
skirr1548
rubc1550
to make awaya1566
lope1575
scuddle1577
scoura1592
to take the start1600
to walk off1604
to break awaya1616
to make off1652
to fly off1667
scuttle1681
whew1684
scamper1687
whistle off1689
brush1699
to buy a brush1699
to take (its, etc.) wing1704
decamp1751
to take (a) French leave1751
morris1765
to rush off1794
to hop the twig1797
to run along1803
scoot1805
to take off1815
speela1818
to cut (also make, take) one's lucky1821
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
absquatulize1829
mosey1829
absquatulate1830
put1834
streak1834
vamoose1834
to put out1835
cut1836
stump it1841
scratch1843
scarper1846
to vamoose the ranch1847
hook1851
shoo1851
slide1859
to cut and run1861
get1861
skedaddle1862
bolt1864
cheese it1866
to do a bunkc1870
to wake snakes1872
bunk1877
nit1882
to pull one's freight1884
fooster1892
to get the (also to) hell out (of)1892
smoke1893
mooch1899
to fly the coop1901
skyhoot1901
shemozzle1902
to light a shuck1905
to beat it1906
pooter1907
to take a run-out powder1909
blow1912
to buzz off1914
to hop it1914
skate1915
beetle1919
scram1928
amscray1931
boogie1940
skidoo1949
bug1950
do a flit1952
to do a scarper1958
to hit, split or take the breeze1959
to do a runner1980
to be (also get, go) ghost1986
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > hastily or suddenly
fleec825
warpa1400
wringc1400
bolt1575
decamp1751
mog1770
to hop the twig1797
to take (its, etc.) wing1806
to make (take) tracks (for)1824
vamoose1834
fade1848
skedaddle1862
to beat it1906
blow1912
to hop it1914
beetle1919
bug1950
jet1951
1914 W. Owen Let. 24 Aug. (1967) 279 I should hop it, immejit.
1915 Scotsman 13 Jan. 7/3 The Zeppelin kept a few miles in the rear of us, and finally hopped it.
1916 ‘B. Cable’ Action Front 186 ‘Are we going to stick it here?’ said one. ‘Didn't the sergeant say something about 'opping it?’
1924 M. Newman Consummation iv. xviii. 216 J. H. hopped it for all he was worth. A perfect tornado of bombs pursued him.
1934 T. S. Eliot Rock i. 12 The commission bloke on the door looks at us and says: ‘'op it!’
P5. to hop in (also out): to get into (or out of) a car, etc.
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the world > movement > motion in a certain direction > going or coming in > go or come in [verb (intransitive)]
to go ineOE
ingoc900
to come inOE
incomec1000
infarec1000
enterc1325
enderc1330
ingressc1330
entera1382
to fall inc1384
usha1400
to get ina1425
to step in1534
to set (or put) (a) footing1567
invade1590
to take in1595
to hop in (also out)1914
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > get into a vehicle
to get aboarda1616
to step into ——1825
to step in1832
to hop in (also out)1914
society > travel > transport > transport or conveyance in a vehicle > riding in a vehicle > ride in a vehicle [verb (intransitive)] > alight from a vehicle
dismount1594
avale1596
land1693
alight1704
to step out1753
unlight1796
to hop in (also out)1955
deboard1960
1914 R. Kipling Diversity of Creatures (1917) 388 Oh, hop in and drive... We want that beer!
1933 M. de la Roche Master of Jalna viii. 89 Why don't you hop in,..and go with them?
1955 M. Gilbert Sky High xiv. 196 Hop out, Rupert.
1963 B. S. Johnson Travelling People i. 23 I'm making for Aberfyllin,..but I think I can take you about thirty miles along this road... Hop in.
1972 D. Devine Three Green Bottles 8 A car had pulled up just down the road... ‘Hop in. I'll take you.’
P6. With off. To be off, depart; spec. to start on a ‘hop’ (hop n.2 1d) in an aircraft.
ΘΚΠ
society > travel > aspects of travel > departure, leaving, or going away > depart, leave, or go away [verb (intransitive)] > set out
forthfarec888
foundOE
seta1000
to go forthOE
to fare forthc1200
partc1230
to pass forthc1325
to take (the) gatec1330
to take the wayc1330
to take one's waya1375
puta1382
treunt?a1400
movec1400
depart1490
prepare?1518
to set forth1530
to set forward(s)1530
busklea1535
to make out1558
to take forth1568
to set out1583
sally1590
start1591
to go off1600
to put forth1604
to start outa1626
intend1646
to take the road1720
to take one's foot in one's hand1755
to set off1774
to get off1778
to set away1817
to take out1855
to haul out1866
to hit the trail (less commonly the grit, pike, road, etc.)1873
to hit, split or take the breeze1910
hop1922
society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [verb (intransitive)] > take off > depart in an aircraft
hop1922
1922 C. E. Montague Disenchantment ii. 18 What the 'ell did you ever come to me for? 'Op off! Out of it!
1926 C. E. Montague Rough Justice viii. 113 Molly and Auberon suddenly felt the breathless stillness of the place infringed by a low, earnest voice on the shore near them: ‘It's 'im! 'Op orf!’ It was the voice of an aged ferryman they knew.
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 7 July 5/5 The detailed story of Lieutenant Reece reveals the fact that on Friday morning..he had hopped off from Digby Island for Naden Harbor. The plane was heavily loaded, and it was not without some difficulty that he got away.
1930 Morning Post 5 Aug. 9/2 Given favourable weather, he will hop off for England to-morrow, his first stage to Bima..taking him across the Timor Sea.
1934 W. Stevens Let. 12 Feb. (1967) 267 If all goes well, I shall hop off for Florida in a day or two.
P7. colloquial. to hop into bed (with): to have (casual) sexual intercourse (with). Cf. bed n. Phrases 3.
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the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity [verb (intransitive)] > have sexual intercourse
playOE
to do (also work) one's kindc1225
bedc1315
couple1362
gendera1382
to go togetherc1390
to come togethera1398
meddlea1398
felterc1400
companya1425
swivec1440
japea1450
mellc1450
to have to do with (also mid, of, on)1474
engender1483
fuck?a1513
conversec1540
jostlec1540
confederate1557
coeate1576
jumble1582
mate1589
do1594
conjoin1597
grind1598
consortc1600
pair1603
to dance (a dance) between a pair of sheets1608
commix1610
cock1611
nibble1611
wap1611
bolstera1616
incorporate1622
truck1622
subagitate1623
occupya1626
minglec1630
copulate1632
fere1632
rut1637
joust1639
fanfreluche1653
carnalize1703
screw1725
pump1730
correspond1756
shag1770
hump1785
conjugate1790
diddle1879
to get some1889
fuckeec1890
jig-a-jig1896
perform1902
rabbit1919
jazz1920
sex1921
root1922
yentz1923
to make love1927
rock1931
mollock1932
to make (beautiful) music (together)1936
sleep1936
bang1937
lumber1938
to hop into bed (with)1951
to make out1951
ball1955
score1960
trick1965
to have it away1966
to roll in the hay1966
to get down1967
poontang1968
pork1968
shtup1969
shack1976
bonk1984
boink1985
the world > physical sensation > sexual relations > sexual activity > engage in sexual activity with [verb (transitive)] > have sexual intercourse with
mingeOE
haveOE
knowc1175
ofliec1275
to lie with (or by)a1300
knowledgec1300
meetc1330
beliea1350
yknowc1350
touchc1384
deala1387
dightc1386
usea1387
takec1390
commona1400
to meet witha1400
servea1400
occupy?a1475
engender1483
jangle1488
to be busy with1525
to come in1530
visitc1540
niggle1567
mow1568
to mix one's thigh with1593
do1594
grind1598
pepper1600
yark1600
tumble1603
to taste of1607
compressc1611
jumble1611
mix?1614
consort?1615
tastea1616
bumfiddle1630
ingressa1631
sheet1637
carnal1643
night-work1654
bump1669
bumble1680
frig?c1680
fuck1707
stick1707
screw1719
soil1722
to do over1730
shag1770
hump1785
subagitatec1830
diddle1879
to give (someone) onec1882
charver1889
fuckeec1890
plugc1890
dick1892
to make a baby1911
to know (a person) in the biblical sense1912
jazz1920
rock1922
yentz1924
roll1926
to make love1927
shtupa1934
to give (or get) a tumble1934
shack1935
bang1937
to have it off1937
rump1937
tom1949
to hop into bed (with)1951
ball1955
to make it1957
plank1958
score1960
naughty1961
pull1965
pleasurea1967
to have away1968
to have off1968
dork1970
shaft1970
bonk1975
knob1984
boink1985
fand-
1951 E. Coxhead One Green Bottle viii. 229 Hopping quick into bed would be all you'd think of.
1968 ‘J. Welcome’ Hell is where you find It iii. 44 His features were quite strikingly handsome... You'd think every woman he met would have only one thought and that was to hop into bed with him.
1971 C. Whitman Death Suspended i. 22 Duncan wouldn't waste too much time on her unless she was willing to hop into bed.
Compounds
Also hop-o'-my-thumb n.† hop-legged adj. Obsolete lame in the leg (cf. sense 3).† hop-my-fool n. Obsolete a form of gambling game.
hop-about n. (a) the action of hopping about, a dance; (b) (a name for) an apple dumpling.
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society > leisure > dancing > [noun] > a dance
chore1382
dance1393
measure?c1430
virlyc1430
tracec1450
platfoot1559
hop-about1593
firk1637
footing1652
ballet1786
stand-up1861
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > puddings > [noun] > dumplings
dumpling1600
Norfolk dumpling1600
macaroni1616
doughboy1685
pot-ball1688
potato dumpling1765
fungee1789
hop-about1820
knödel1827
johnnycake1831
dough ball1836
Salzburger nockerl1855
pierogi1863
gnocchi1891
cob1898
matzo ball1902
knaidel1903
pizzelle1912
knish1916
mandlen1944
shumai1951
nockerl1954
potsticker1963
the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > prepared fruit and dishes > [noun] > apple dishes
apple-moyse1381
apple frittera1475
hot codlings?1610
flapjack1620
baked apple1621
apple pudding1708
black cap1710
pan pie1723
flap-apple1750
charlotte1796
hop-about1820
biffin1822
apple dowdy1823
pandowdy1833
apple charlotte1842
apple snow1846
apple strudel1850
apple hogling1880
apple amber1889
cob1898
apple crumble1947
1593 Bacchus Bountie in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 275 The pots danced for joy the old hop about commonly called Sellengar's Round.
1820 Sporting Mag. (N.S.) 6 95 She made..four and twenty hop-a-bouts—apple dumplings—out of one pound of flour.
hop-ball n. a game with a ball (unidentified).
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > children's ball games > [noun]
catchball1631
hop-ball1811
Anthony over1838
barn-ball1841
bull-pen1857
sevens1864
catch1887
pig in the middle1887
alairy1916
monkey in the middle1952
kingy1959
piggy in the middle1967
dandy shandy1978
1811 Sporting Mag. 38 223 A particular game denominated Hop-Ball.
hop-crease n. = hopscotch n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > hopscotch
spurn-point1532
Scotch hoppersa1672
hop-scot1789
pallall1799
hopscotch1801
hop-crease1803
Scotch hob1823
hop-score1829
pickie1884
potsy1905
1803 W. Taylor in Ann. Rev. 1 354 Flying kites, knuckling marbles, chuck-half~penny and hop-crease.
a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Hop-crease, the game among boys more commonly called hop-scotch..A scotch is a cut or crease.
hop-frog n. = leap-frog n.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > children's game > other children's games > [noun] > leap-frog
leap-frog1600
truss1627
cock-horse1648
truss-a-faila1658
skip-frog1699
hop-frog1720
frog in the middle (also meadow)1790
fly-the-garter1818
frog over an old dog1847–78
1720 T. Gordon & J. Trenchard Independent Whig No. 32. ⁋13 He bows..and ducks his Head, as if he was playing at Hop Frog.
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the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > disorders of visible parts > lameness or physical disability > [adjective]
limphalta700
lamec725
haltc893
cripplec1230
alamedc1275
crippleda1400
left-handeda1425
limb-take1519
limp-legged1523
limpish1570
lamish1592
limping1599
spavined1647
hip-shotten1648
hamble-shanked1661
hop-legged1714
cripply1775
bockety1842
estropiated1917
1714 J. Savage tr. B. Gracián y Morales Art Prudence (ed. 3) 257 Hop-legg'd, Hump-back'd..never did any thing that was either Good or Honest.
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society > leisure > entertainment > pastimes > game > games of chance > other games of chance > [noun]
even or odd1538
love1585
Jack-in-the-box?1593
under-hat1629
pluck-penny1643
morra1659
catch-dolt1674
shuffle-cap1712
fair chance1723
E O1751
teetotum1753
rondo1821
cut-throat1823
hop-my-fool1824
odds and evens1841
spin-'em-round1851
halfpenny under the hat1853
racehorses1853
fan-tan1878
tan1883
pakapoo1886
legality1888
petits chevaux1891
pai gow1906
boule1911
put and take1921
1824 J. Galt Rothelan II. iii. i. 8 The slouched and the slovenly..wrangled at skittles and toss-my-luck, and bent eagerly over the hop-my-fool tables.
hop-off n. Aeronautics the take-off of an aircraft.
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society > travel > air or space travel > action of flying (in) aircraft > specific flying operations or procedures > [noun] > take-off
take-off1904
get-off1910
hop-off1926
unsticking1926
1926 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 13 Jan. 1/7 The expedition planes will be..flown..to Point Barrow, where the hop-off for the Polar flight will be made.
1927 S. Bent Ballyhoo i. 36 To the mere hop-off by Lindbergh the New York Times gave three first page eight-column streamers.
hop-over n. Army slang an assault.
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society > armed hostility > attack > [noun]
fiend-reseOE
frumresec1275
assault1297
sault1297
inracea1300
sailing13..
venuea1330
checkc1330
braid1340
affrayc1380
outrunningc1384
resinga1387
wara1387
riota1393
assailc1400
assayc1400
onset1423
rake?a1425
pursuitc1425
assemblinga1450
brunta1450
oncominga1450
assembly1487
envaya1500
oncomea1500
shovea1500
front1523
scry1523
attemptate1524
assaulting1548
push1565
brash1573
attempt1584
affront?1587
pulse1587
affret1590
saliaunce1590
invasion1591
assailment1592
insultation1596
aggressa1611
onslaught1613
source1616
confronta1626
impulsion1631
tentative1632
essaya1641
infall1645
attack1655
stroke1698
insult1710
coup de main1759
onfall1837
hurrah1841
beat-up of quarters1870
offensive1887
strafe1915
grand slam1916
hop-over1918
run1941
strike1942
1918 H. Matthews in W. Murdoch & H. Drake-Brockman Austral. Short Stories (1951) 243 They didn't have the dash of the Australians in the hop-over.
1933 E. Partridge Words, Words, Words! iii. 194 In the hop-over, many hoped for and some got a wound sufficiently serious to cause them to be sent ‘home’.
hop over v. intransitive to attack, to go ‘over the top’.
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society > armed hostility > attack > attack [verb (intransitive)]
to lay ona1225
assailc1325
sailc1330
assemblea1375
to fall inc1384
to fall ona1387
givec1430
brunt1440
to set (all) on sevenc1440
to ding on1487
to fall down1534
offend1540
to go on1553
to give on?1611
to let fly1611
strikea1616
insult1638
to set on1670
aggress1708
to carry the war into the enemy's camp1791
hop over1929
1929 Papers Michigan Acad. Sci., Arts & Lett. 10 299 Hop over, Australian for ‘go over the top’.
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In present participle to keep (someone or something) hopping: to keep active, busy, or lively; similarly, to be (get, etc.) hopping. colloquial (chiefly U.S.).
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the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > carry on vigorously [verb (transitive)] > make lively > keep lively
to keep (someone or something) hopping1926
the world > action or operation > manner of action > vigour or energy > act or do vigorously [verb (intransitive)] > act in spirited manner > become lively
quickena1400
animate1779
waken1825
sprightle1896
smarten1899
to be (get, etc.) hopping1960
percolate1962
1926 H. Crane Let. 2 Mar. (1965) 234 The cold has kept us hopping, though, and I'll be glad to greet the first warm days.
1960 E. B. White Let. June (1976) 471 Things are hopping here this morning by the sea.
1979 United States 1980–1 (Penguin Travel Guides) 278 Several acts keep the place hopping from dinner-time to the wee hours.
1990 J. McGahern Amongst Women 13 Put on the kettle. Set the table. Get hopping.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1899; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
hopv.2
/hɒp/, U.S. /hɑp/ 1. transitive. To impregnate or flavour with hops. (Chiefly used in passive.)
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the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > seasoning > season [verb (transitive)] > flavour in other ways
saffronc1386
milk?a1565
hop1572
juniperate1605
beginger1611
macea1634
caryophyllate1651
fruit1736
onion1755
mustard1851
clove1883
lemon1883
herb1922
sherry1970
1572 J. Jones Benefit Bathes of Buckstones f. 10 Ale, neyther to new, nor to stale, not ouerhopped.
1587 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. vi. i. 160 The drinke..being well hopped it lasteth longer.
1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 235 A man of worship, whose beere was better hopped then maulted.
1738 J. Swift Compl. Coll. Genteel Conversat. 165 I never taste Malt Liquor; but they say, 'tis well hopt.
1830 M. Donovan Domest. Econ. I. vi. 163 Malt liquors which have been highly hopped will at length lose all bitterness, and become powerfully acid.
2. intransitive. Of the hop-plant: To produce hops.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > climbing or creeping plants > [verb (intransitive)] > produce hops or be in bell (of hop-plant)
bell1574
hop1848
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 554 They climb the poles fast..but do not..hop so well.
1848 Jrnl. Royal Agric. Soc. 9 ii. 557 The Goldings do not hop down generally so low as many other sorts.
3. To gather or pick hops: see hopping n.2
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