A shortjourney, especially in the case of air travel, one that takes place on a private plane.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page68:
My fellow passengers are a mixture of people returning from a day out in the capital, locals doing shorthops, and a few (like me) heading farther afield.
(sports,US) Abounce, especially from the ground, of a thrown or batted ball.
1896, Benjamin Brierley, James Dronsfield,"Ab-o'th'-Yate" Sketches and Other Short Stories
One singing-room we had closed, and so damaged a "twopennyhop" that it could not have survived another season had our own prosperity continued unchecked.
(networking) The sending of adatapacket from onehost to an adjacent host as part of its overall journey.
When it had advanced from the wood, ithopped 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.
2018 February,Robert Draper, “They are Watching You—and Everything Else on the Planet: Technology and Our Increasing Demand for Security have Put Us All under Surveillance. Is Privacy Becoming just a Memory?”, inNational Geographic[1], Washington, D.C.:National Geographic Society,→ISSN,→OCLC, archived fromthe original on14 June 2018:
Theyhop the curb and cut their engines.
2020 December 2, Paul Bigland, “My weirdest and wackiest Rover yet”, inRail, page68:
As the 1857 to Manchester Piccadilly rolls in, I scan the windows and realise there are plenty of spare seats, so Ihop aboard. The train is a '221'+'220' combo to allow for social distancing - a luxury on anXC train as normally you're playing sardines, so I make the most of it.
(intransitive, usually in combination) To move frequently from one place or situation to another similar one.
Wehopped on the freeway heading to LA and I looked over at the dashboard and saw the needle back on “E” and I told the guy, “Hey! You going to make it with the gas you got?"
2016, A.P. Jensen,Closure:
Juliet shook her head as shehopped on the computer and greeted a customer who ambled in, blowing on her still wet nails.
2018, Sean Grigsby,Daughters of Forgotten Light:
Spanglerhopped up from the control panel and stretched, pressing his hands to his lower back.
2020, Michael Hewes,The Milk Wagon:
Shehopped on the computer and typed away, going back and forth between Mark's fake I.D., the deposit slip and the computer screen.
a.1701 (date written), John Dryden, “(please specify the title)”, inThe Miscellaneous Works of John Dryden,[…], volume IV, London:[…]J[acob] and R[ichard] Tonson,[…], published1760,→OCLC:
The limping smith[…]hopping here and there, himself a jest[…]
hop (third-person singular simple presenthops,present participlehopping,simple past and past participlehopped)
(transitive) Toimpregnate with hops, especially to add hops as a flavouring agent during the production ofbeer
1707,J[ohn] Mortimer,The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land.[…], London:[…] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock[…], and J[onathan] Robinson[…],→OCLC:
If you brew in March or October, and havehopped it for long keeping[…]
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hop (vogel) on the Dutch Wikipedia.Wikipedianl
