HOPPED

HOP

hop

(verb) travel by means of an aircraft, bus, etc.; “She hopped a train to Chicago”; “He hopped rides all over the country”

hop, skip, hop-skip

(verb) jump lightly

hop

(verb) make a jump forward or upward

hop

(verb) jump across; “He hopped the bush”

hop

(verb) traverse as if by a short airplane trip; “Hop the Pacific Ocean”

hop

(verb) move quickly from one place to another

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Verb

hopped

simple past tense and past participle of hop

Adjective

hopped (comparative more hopped, superlative most hopped)

Impregnated with hops.

Source: Wiktionary


Hopped, p. a.

Definition: Impregnated with hops.

HOP

Hop, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Hopped; p. pr. & vb. n. Hopping.] Etym: [OE. hoppen to hop, leap, dance, AS. hoppian; akin to Icel. & Sw. hoppa, Dan. hoppe, D. huppelen, G. hüpfen.]

1. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do. [Birds] hopping from spray to spray. Dryden.

2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt. Dryden.

3. To dance. Smollett.

Hop, n.

1. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.

2. A dance; esp., an informal dance of ball. [Colloq.] Hop, skip (or step), and jump, a game or athletic sport in which the participants cover as much ground as possible by a hop, stride, and jump in succession. Addison.

Hop, n. Etym: [OE. hoppe; akin to D. hop, hoppe, OHG. hopfo, G. hopfen; cf. LL. hupa, W. hopez, Armor. houpez, and Icel. humall, SW. & Dan. humle.]

1. (Bot.)

Definition: A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).

2. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.

3. The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip. Hop back. (Brewing) See under 1st Back.

– Hop clover (Bot.), a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature (Trifolium agrarium, and T. procumbens).

– Hop flea (Zoöl.), a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna), very injurious to hops.

– Hop fly (Zoöl.), an aphid (Phorodon humuli), very injurious to hop vines.

– Hop froth fly (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines.

– Hop hornbeam (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya (O.Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (O. vulgaris).

– Hop moth (Zoöl.), a moth (Hypena humuli), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines.

– Hop picker, one who picks hops.

– Hop pole, a pole used to support hop vines.

– Hop tree (Bot.), a small American tree (Ptelia trifoliata), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops.

– Hop vine (Bot.), the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.

Hop, v. t.

Definition: To impregnate with hops. Mortimer.

Hop, v. i.

Definition: To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n.]

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



RESET




Word of the Day

28 March 2025

HOST

(noun) a person who invites guests to a social event (such as a party in his or her own home) and who is responsible for them while they are there


coffee icon

Coffee Trivia

According to Statista, the global coffee industry is worth US$363 billion in 2020. The market grows annually by 10.6%, and 78% of revenue came from out-of-home establishments like cafes and coffee beverage retailers.

coffee icon