hop
/hɑp/
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: 4.40 in modern English
8
Scrabble Score
3
Letters
1
Syllables
3
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A short journey, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
Example Sentences
- "The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops."
- "My fellow passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing short hops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield."
- "For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television."
- "1896, Benjamin Brierley, James Dronsfield, "Ab-o'th'-Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories One singing-room we had closed, and so damaged a "twopenny hop" that it could not have survived another season had our own prosperity continued unchecked."
- "When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail."
- "Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop."
Etymology
From Middle English hoppen, from Old English hoppian (“to hop, spring, leap, dance”), from Proto-West Germanic *huppōn, from Proto-Germanic *huppōną (“to hop”), from Proto-Indo-European *kewb- (“to bend, bow”). Cognate with Dutch hoppen (“to hop”), German hopfen, hoppen (“to hop”), Danish hoppe (“to hop, leap, jump”), Swedish hoppa (“to hop, leap, jump”), Icelandic hoppa (“to hop, skip”).
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: *ḱewb-, hoppen, hoppian, *huppōn, *huppōną, *kewb-
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /hɑp/
- British English: /hɒp/
Usage
- Informal
- American usage
- British usage
- Dated
- Slang
- Intransitive verb
- Transitive verb
- Obsolete