hop : Idioms & Phrases


american hop

  • noun native American plant sometimes confused with the European hop
    Humulus americanus.
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bar hop

  • 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

  • verb be sexually active with more than one partner
    bedhop; sleep around.
    • His wife bed hops
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common hop

  • 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

  • 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

  • noun an act (or failure to act) that disappoints someone
    disappointment.
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eastern hop hornbeam

  • noun medium-sized hop hornbeam of eastern North America
    ironwood; Ostrya virginiana; ironwood tree.
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european hop

  • 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

  • noun an urban youth culture associated with rap music and the fashions of African-American residents of the inner city
  • 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.
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Hop back

  • . (Brewing) See under 1st Back.
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Hop clover

  • noun prostrate European herb with small yellow flowers and curved black pods; naturalized in North America
    black medick; yellow trefoil; nonesuch clover; Medicago lupulina.
  • 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, and T. procumbens).
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hop field

  • 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.
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Hop froth fly

  • (Zoöl.), an hemipterous insect (Aphrophora interrupta), allied to the cockoo spits. It often does great damage to hop vines.
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hop garden

  • noun a garden where hops are grown
    hop field.
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Hop hornbeam

  • noun any of several trees resembling hornbeams with fruiting clusters resembling hops
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  • (Bot.), an American tree of the genus Ostrya (O.Virginica) the American ironwood; also, a European species (O. vulgaris).
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hop marjoram

  • 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

  • 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

  • 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.
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Hop pole

  • 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.
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hop up

  • 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.
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hop-o'-my-thumb

Hop"-o'-my-thumb", Hop"-thumb" noun (Also<
  • Hop-o'-my-thumb
  • Hop-thumb
)
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  1. A very diminutive person. Colloq. liwell.
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hop-picker

  • noun a machine used for picking hops
    hopper.
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hop-skip

  • verb jump lightly
    skip; hop.
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hop-step-and-jump

  • 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
Definitions
  1. See Hop-o'-my-thumb.
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hoped-for

  • adjective satellite expected hopefully
    awaited; anticipated.
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hopped-up

  • adjective satellite (of an automobile) having the engine modified to give extra power
    • a hopped-up jalopy
  • adjective satellite under the influence of narcotics
    stoned.
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island hop

  • verb travel from one island to the next
    • on the cruise, we did some island-hopping
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japanese hop

  • noun ornamental vine native to eastern Asia; cultivated for its variegated foliage
    Humulus japonicus.
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lindy hop

  • 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

  • noun medium-sized hop hornbeam of southern Europe and Asia Minor
    Ostrya carpinifolia.
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record hop

  • noun an informal dance where popular music is played
    hop.
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swan-hopping

Swan"-hop`ping noun
Definitions
  1. A corruption of Swan-upping. Eng. Encyc. Brit.
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take a hop

  • 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.
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wild hop

  • noun bryony having fleshy roots pale green flowers and very small red berries; Europe; North Africa; western Asia
    Bryonia dioica; red bryony.
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