hop : Idioms & Phrases
Index
- american hop
- bar hop
- bed-hop
- common hop
- common hops
- dashing hopes
- eastern hop hornbeam
- european hop
- hip-hop
Hop ,skip (∨step ),and jump - Hop back
- Hop clover
- hop field
- Hop flea
- Hop fly
- Hop froth fly
- hop garden
- Hop hornbeam
- hop marjoram
- Hop moth
- hop on
- hop out
- Hop picker
- Hop pole
- Hop tree
- hop up
- Hop vine
- hop-o'-my-thumb
- hop-picker
- hop-skip
- hop-step-and-jump
- hop-thumb
- hoped-for
- hopped-up
- island hop
- japanese hop
- lindy hop
- old world hop hornbeam
- record hop
- swan-hopping
- take a hop
- Toll hop
- wild hop
american hop
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noun native American plant sometimes confused with the European hop
Humulus americanus.
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bar hop
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verb go from one pub to the next and get progressively more drunk
pub-crawl.
- he pub-crawled around Birmingham
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bed-hop
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verb be sexually active with more than one partner
bedhop; sleep around.
- His wife bed hops
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common hop
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noun European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America
bine; common hop; Humulus lupulus; common hops.
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common hops
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noun European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America
bine; common hop; Humulus lupulus; common hops.
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dashing hopes
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noun an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone
disappointment.
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eastern hop hornbeam
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noun medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
ironwood; Ostrya virginiana; ironwood tree.
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european hop
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noun European twining plant whose flowers are used chiefly to flavor malt liquors; cultivated in America
bine; common hop; Humulus lupulus; common hops.
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hip-hop
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noun an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city
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noun genre of African-American music of the 1980s and 1990s in which rhyming lyrics are chanted to a musical accompaniment; several forms of rap have emerged
rap music; rap.
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Hop , skip (∨ 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.
Webster 1913
Hop back
- .
(Brewing) See under 1stBack .
Webster 1913
Hop clover
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noun prostrate European herb with small yellow flowers and curved black pods; naturalized in North America
black medick; yellow trefoil; nonesuch clover; Medicago lupulina.
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noun clover native to Ireland with yellowish flowers; often considered the true or original shamrock
shamrock; Trifolium dubium; lesser yellow trefoil.
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(Bot.) , a species of yellow clover having heads like hops in miniature (Trifolium agrarium , andT. procumbens ).
Webster 1913
hop field
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noun a garden where hops are grown
hop field.
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Hop flea
(Zoöl.) , a small flea beetle (Haltica concinna ), very injurious to hops.
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Hop fly
(Zoöl.) , an aphid (Phorodon humuli ), very injurious to hop vines.
Webster 1913
Hop froth fly
(Zoöl.) , an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta ), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines.
Webster 1913
hop garden
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noun a garden where hops are grown
hop field.
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Hop hornbeam
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noun any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops
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(Bot.) , an American tree of the genusOstrya (O.Virginica ) the American ironwood; also, a European species (O. vulgaris ).
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hop marjoram
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noun dwarf aromatic shrub of Crete
winter sweet; cretan dittany; dittany of crete; crete dittany; Origanum dictamnus.
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Hop moth
(Zoöl.) , a moth (Hypena humuli ), which in the larval state is very injurious to hop vines.
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hop on
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verb get up on the back of
get on; mount; mount up; bestride; jump on; climb on.
- mount a horse
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hop out
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verb get out of quickly
get off.
- The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car
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Hop picker
- one who picks hops.
Webster 1913
Hop pole
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noun a tall pole to support the wires on which the hop plant is trained
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- a pole used to support hop vines.
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Hop tree
(Bot.) , a small American tree (Ptelia trifoliata ), having broad, flattened fruit in large clusters, sometimes used as a substitute for hops.
Webster 1913
hop up
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verb make more powerful
soup up; hot up.
- he souped up the old cars
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Hop vine
(Bot.) , the climbing vine or stalk of the hop.
Webster 1913
hop-o'-my-thumb
Hop"-o'-my-thumb", Hop"-thumb" noun
(Also<
- Hop-o'-my-thumb
- Hop-thumb
)
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A very diminutive person. Colloq. liwell.
Webster 1913
hop-picker
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noun a machine used for picking hops
hopper.
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hop-skip
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verb jump lightly
skip; hop.
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hop-step-and-jump
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noun an athletic contest in which a competitor must perform successively a hop and a step and a jump in continuous movement
triple jump.
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hop-thumb
Hop"-thumb` noun
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See Hop-o'-my-thumb .
Webster 1913
hoped-for
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adjective satellite expected hopefully
awaited; anticipated.
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hopped-up
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adjective satellite (of an automobile) having the engine modified to give extra power
- a hopped-up jalopy
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adjective satellite under the influence of narcotics
stoned.
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island hop
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verb travel from one island to the next
- on the cruise, we did some island-hopping
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japanese hop
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noun ornamental vine native to eastern Asia; cultivated for its variegated foliage
Humulus japonicus.
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lindy hop
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noun an energetic American dance that was popular in the 1930s (probably named for the aviator Charles Lindbergh)
lindy.
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old world hop hornbeam
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noun medium-sized hop hornbeam of southern Europe and Asia Minor
Ostrya carpinifolia.
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record hop
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noun an informal dance where popular music is played
hop.
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swan-hopping
Swan"-hop`ping noun
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A corruption of Eng. Encyc. Brit.Swan-upping .
Webster 1913
take a hop
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verb spring back; spring away from an impact
spring; rebound; bound; bounce; reverberate; recoil; resile; ricochet.
- The rubber ball bounced
- These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide
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Toll hop
- a toll dish. Obs. Crabb.
Webster 1913
wild hop
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noun bryony having fleshy roots pale green flowers and very small red berries; Europe; North Africa; western Asia
Bryonia dioica; red bryony.