noun

• (informal, figurative) A brief period of development or progress.
  "For popular radio stars in New York and Los Angeles, it was a short hop to network television."
• (sports, US) A bounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
• (UK, US, slang, dated) A dance; a gathering for the purpose of dancing.
  "1896, Benjamin Brierley, James Dronsfield, "Ab-o'th'-Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories One singing-room we had closed, and so damaged a "twopenny hop" that it could not have survived another season had our own prosperity continued unchecked."
• (networking) The sending of a data packet from one host to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.

verb

• (intransitive) To jump a short distance.
  "When it had advanced from the wood, it hopped much after the fashion of a kangaroo, using its hind feet and tail to propel it, and when it stood erect, it sat upon its tail."
• (intransitive) To jump on one foot.
• (intransitive) To be in state of energetic activity.
  "Sorry, can't chat. Got to hop."
• (transitive) To suddenly take a mode of transportation that one does not drive oneself, often surreptitiously.
  "I hopped a plane over here as soon as I heard the news."

noun

• (usually in the plural) The flowers of the hop plant, dried and used to brew beer etc.
• (US, slang) Opium, or some other narcotic drug.
  "‘You've been shot full of hop and kept under it until you're as crazy as two waltzing mice.’"

verb

• (transitive) To impregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production of beer
  "If you brew in March or October, and have hopped it for long keeping[…]"
• (intransitive) To gather hops.