meaning of hop

1. To move by successive leaps, as toads do; to spring or jump on one foot; to skip, as birds do.
2. To walk lame; to limp; to halt.
3. To dance.
4. A leap on one leg, as of a boy; a leap, as of a toad; a jump; a spring.
5. A dance; esp. , an informal dance of ball.
6. A climbing plant (Humulus Lupulus), having a long, twining, annual stalk. It is cultivated for its fruit (hops).
7. The catkin or strobilaceous fruit of the hop, much used in brewing to give a bitter taste.
8. The fruit of the dog-rose. See Hip.
9. To impregnate with hops.
10. To gather hops. [Perhaps only in the form Hopping, vb. n. ]
11. hop 1. One point-to-point transmission in a series required to get a message from point A to point B on a store and forward network. On such networks including UUCPNET and FidoNet, an important inter-machine metric is the hop count of the shortest path between them. This can be more significant than their geographical separation. Each exclamation mark in a bang path represents one hop. 2. One direct host-to-host connection forming part of the route between two hosts in a routed network such as the Internet. Some protocols place an upper limit on the hop count in order to detect routing loops. 3. networking> To log in to a remote computer, especially via rlogin or telnet. "Ill hop over to foovax to FTP that. " [Jargon File]
12. the act of hopping; jumping upward or forward especially on one foot

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