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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

... the big fire the other day, a certain girl of my acquaintance remarked: "Is there anything so grand in a man as force? In my estimation those firemen and the chief who so splendidly controlled them are as far superior to the dancing youth, we meet at parties and hops, as meat is better than foam." Put that into your pipe, you callow striplings, who aim to be lady-killers! It is not your tennis suits, nor your small feet, nor your ability to dance and lead the german that makes a woman's heart kindle at your ...

— A String of Amber Beads • Martha Everts Holden

... The little brown squirrel hops in the corn, The cricket quaintly sings, The emerald pigeon nods his head, And the shad in the river springs, The dainty sunflow'r hangs its head On the shore of the summer sea; And better far that I were dead, If ...

— The Book of Humorous Verse • Various

... with the pillars painted red, and varnished. The teste and curtains of red silk edged with gold and silver bone lace, and embroidered "in a border of hops, roses, and pomegranates." ...

— Needlework As Art • Marian Alford

... by old castles where swans swam about and they looked down the shady avenues. In the fields the corn waved like a sea. In the ditches yellow and red flowers were growing, and in the hedges wild hops. In the evening the moon rose, round and large, and the haystacks in the meadows ...

— Tell Me Another Story - The Book of Story Programs • Carolyn Sherwin Bailey

... among many others, in the contrasted black and yellow of wasps, bees, and hornets, the bright red, black, and yellow bands of the deadly coral snakes, and the brilliantly coloured frog of Santo Domingo which hops unconcernedly about in the daytime in his livery of red and blue—"for nothing will eat ...

— The Naturalist in Nicaragua • Thomas Belt

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