hop

Meanings

1. 1
   verb

   To jump a short distance, often on one foot.

   The little girl hopped across the puddle.

2. 2
   noun

   A short jump.

   The frog crossed the brook in three or four hops.

3. 3
   verb

   To get on a bus, train, or plane, especially quickly.

   We hopped a train to Chicago.

4. 4
   noun

   A short journey, especially a quick flight.

   It is just a short hop from London to Paris by plane.

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”).

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