I. verb
COLLOCATIONS FROM OTHER ENTRIES
a bird hops (= makes small jumping movements )
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A small bird was hopping across the grass.
hip hop
hopping mad (= very angry )
trip hop
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADVERB
about
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They did not remain long, for the cold soon had them hopping about , and the journey was resumed.
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Once inside he hopped about , acting nervous.
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Now sit still and stop hopping about , will you.
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Apparently it had been reported hopping about in a car park close to the village.
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He jumped up too, then cursed and hopped about , struggling to get his fly shut before he could chase me.
around
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It hopped around and sometimes damaged other genes.
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When I first saw it, it was hopping around in the bottom of one of the larger aviaries.
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Because all these kids have been hopped around to ten different places.
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They wore the motley coat of jesters and one of them was hopping around on a hobby horse.
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Mr Bibbit, hop around for Mr McMurphy here.
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It pulled it right off in the hospital carpark, and had me hopping around .
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The robin hopped around , pleased to see some one gardening.
back
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She idly watched a tame yellow warbler hopping back and forth across the window sill as Victor put the call through.
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Here and there a red squirrel jumped down noisily, then hopped back on to a horizontal log cushioned with soft green moss.
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After their terribly exciting bridge crossing, they hopped back over the shallows and headed back to their mini-van.
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They will provide a lot of amusement hopping back and forth over the rocks from one puddle to another.
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When he had finished, he hopped back into a chair across the room from Smitty.
in
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That was when Kanga, who owns a fashion firm, hopped in to try on and buy the lookalike number.
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She shook her head and waded out to the boat and hopped in .
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Renwick saw the businesslike nose of a revolver just showing from under the coat's folds. Hop in .
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He hopped in and unzipped the rucksack, taking out only the scope which he pointed back towards the lakeside.
off
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There's a woman just up the road so I hop off the wall and run after her.
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He hopped off on to the logs.
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He hopped off the stool lightly and followed her to the dining room.
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You could switch to diesel but you'd be better off hopping to work.
on
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You can use your included Canal Bus Pass to hop on and off the Rembrandt cruise.
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I hopped on to my charpoi and covered myself with a quilt.
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You do as your Dad says. Hop on over to the end of the road and give her a tinkle.
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So we hopped on and were going through this old, overgrown rubber plantation.
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He put his finger in but it wouldn't hop on to it.
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The bird hopped on to her wrist.
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As they were looking at the seed packets together, the robin hopped on to a branch near them.
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Usually they hopped on and pumped away and suddenly it was over.
out
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Near here the student hopped out , waved goodbye and disappeared up a side lane.
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The driver hopped out with a clipboard in his hand and started up the steps.
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Another rustle followed before a glossy blackbird hopped out and made off towards the parkland.
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Jesse Johnson hopped out of his dory and put himself be-tween the pile of bodies and the wharf.
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Mildred hopped out and looked around.
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I hopped out , walked over, plucked a leaf from the bur oak above it.
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Marina laughed at me as I hopped out to tie us up against a tree.
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I hopped out the door and watched the old man being taken down the stairs to the platform.
over
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She hopped over the next puddle, then the next.
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You really ought to hop over for a weekend and see it, Anne.
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Michael Barry suggests you hop over to the magical island of Herm.
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He looked out at a pair of starlings hopping over the lawn, their feathers ruffled by the chill breeze.
up
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She saw him ahead of her, hopping up and down in his anxiety.
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A little kid in a Catholic school uniform still hops up and down the steps of a stoop on one foot.
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All the birds began to hop up and down and twitter, opening and shutting their beaks.
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I nearly get it right, but I end up hopping again.
■ NOUN
bus
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One more block and she could hop on to the bus which would take her to Grand Central Station.
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Millions of vacationing seniors have discovered the answer to stress-free, economical travel is as simple as hopping on a bus .
foot
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Poor Vanessa was stabbing a cigarette, a cup of tea, another cigarette, hopping from one foot to the other.
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Then he hopped down at my feet and ate all the corn he wanted.
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The foreman, hopping , one foot to the other, to get his trousers down.
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She started to hop from one foot to the other.
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Mr Parkinson hopped delightedly from foot to foot.
plane
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Receiving assurances that there was no ethnic dimension to the role he had been offered, Hoch hopped a plane headed west.
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Elated, Daley and Sis hopped a plane for a vacation in the Florida Keys.
train
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If you are exhausted or hot, hop the steam train that circles continuously around the park.
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He would just hop trains and stuff.
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A Manhattan team, meanwhile, sent its bikes ahead and hopped a freight train west.
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He stayed at hobo camps, including those in Albany and Richmond, and lived hopping freight trains throughout the Western states.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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A wide-eyed little girl hopped into Santa's lap.
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It's a game in which you hop around trying to knock the other players over.
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Lorna hopped over to a bench to put on her shoes.
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Mary was hopping anxiously from one foot to another.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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A little kid in a Catholic school uniform still hops up and down the steps of a stoop on one foot.
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Aunt Margaret's curly, black handwriting skipped and hopped on the paper because Melanie's eyes were so tired.
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Even worse, plasmids can hop between species.
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He hopped across the ditch to the farther bank and looked round him again.
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Instead, anyone at hand hops on to the truck and gets the job done.
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She started to hop from one foot to the other.
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There had been barely a break in their conversation as they hopped the rocks.
II. noun
COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS
■ ADJECTIVE
short
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The solution here is to perform very short hops and observe the behaviour of the model.
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And some airlines are more affected by flying short hops and in areas where weather is relatively poor.
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It was but a short hop from their first rooms in St George's Square but represented an enormous leap in lifestyle.
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It's designed for short hops .
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Diana climbed aboard one boat with children William and Harry for the short hop to their luxury yacht.
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Weld scars confirmed his suspicion that a hefty furnace engine had been appended to its original short hop retro reaction coil system.
■ VERB
catch
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They catch you on the hop .
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You caught us on the hop there, ol' buddy.
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Yes, I think I caught her on the hop .
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Sorry about the mess but you caught me on the hop like.
EXAMPLES FROM OTHER ENTRIES
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It's just a short hop from Cleveland to Detroit.
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The ball got past the shortstop on a bad hop .
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The bird took another hop toward Kyle's outstretched hand.
EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS
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And some airlines are more affected by flying short hops and in areas where weather is relatively poor.
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In high amounts hops are such a potent sedative that Clement, working as an herbalist, offers them to dental patients.
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This is where they dry the hops.