HOP

I. verb (~ped; ~ping) Etymology: Middle English ~pen, from Old English ~pian Date: before 12th century intransitive verb to move by a quick springy leap or in a series of leaps, to make a quick trip especially by air, to set about doing something, transitive verb to jump over , to ride on , II. noun Date: 1508 1. a short brisk leap especially on one leg, bounce , rebound , dance 3, 3. a flight in an aircraft, a short trip, III. noun Etymology: Middle English ~pe, from Middle Dutch; akin to Old High German ~fo ~ Date: 15th century the ripe dried pistillate catkins of a perennial north-temperate zone twining vine ( Humulus lupulus ) of the hemp family used especially to impart a bitter flavor to malt liquors, the vine from which ~s is obtained having 3- to 5-lobed leaves and inconspicuous flowers of which the pistillate ones are in glandular cone-shaped catkins, IV. transitive verb (~ped; ~ping) Date: 1572 to flavor with ~s