Hop
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Hop or hops may refer to:
  • Hop, a kind of small jump
    Jumping
    Jumping or leaping is a form of locomotion or movement in which an organism or non-living mechanical system propels itself through the air along a ballistic trajectory...

    , usually using only one leg
  • Hop (plant)
    Hop (plant)
    Humulus, Hop, is a small genus of flowering plants native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere. The female flowers of H. lupulus are known as hops, and are used as a culinary flavoring and stabilizer, especially in the brewing of beer...

    , a genus of climbing flowering plants
  • Hops
    Hops
    Hops are the female flower clusters , of a hop species, Humulus lupulus. They are used primarily as a flavoring and stability agent in beer, to which they impart a bitter, tangy flavor, though hops are also used for various purposes in other beverages and herbal medicine...

    , the female flower clusters of one species of hop, used primarily as a flavouring and stability agent in beer
  • Hop, a type of dance
    Dance
    Dance is an art form that generally refers to movement of the body, usually rhythmic and to music, used as a form of expression, social interaction or presented in a spiritual or performance setting....

    , including:
    • Lindy Hop
      Lindy Hop
      The Lindy Hop is an American social dance, from the swing dance family. It evolved in Harlem, New York City in the 1920s and '30s and originally evolved with the jazz music of that time. Lindy was a fusion of many dances that preceded it or were popular during its development but is mainly based...

      , a swing dance of the 1920s and 1930s
    • Sock Hop
      Sock Hop
      The sock hop was an informal sponsored dance at American high schools, typically held in the high school's own gym or cafeteria. The term sock hop came about because dancers were required to remove their shoes to protect the varnished floor of the gymnasium. These hops were a cultural feature of...

      , an informal dance
  • Hóp, a Viking name for what was possibly a part of the North American coast: see Vinland
    Vinland
    Vinland was the name given to an area of North America by the Norsemen, about the year 1000 CE.There is a consensus among scholars that the Vikings reached North America approximately five centuries prior to the voyages of Christopher Columbus...

  • Hóp
    Hóp
    The lake Hóp is situated in the north of Iceland near Blönduós at the Húnafjörður.In reality, the lake is more of a lagoon than a lake. Its surface area depends on the tides and oscillates between 29 and 44 km². Its greatest depth is 9 m....

    , an Icelandic lake
  • Hop River
    Hop River
    The Hop Rivers marshy source is just southeast of Bolton Notch, Connecticut. It flows for about to its confluence with the Willimantic River. There is a popular paddling route beginning where the Skungamaug River enters the Hop River just north of the Hendee Road bridge and ending at the...

    , a river in Connecticut, USA
  • Hop, informal term for opium
    Opium
    Opium is the dried latex obtained from the opium poppy . Opium contains up to 12% morphine, an alkaloid, which is frequently processed chemically to produce heroin for the illegal drug trade. The latex also includes codeine and non-narcotic alkaloids such as papaverine, thebaine and noscapine...

    , a narcotic drug
  • Hop (software)
    Hop (software)
    Hop is a Lisp-like programming language by Manuel Serrano for web 2.0 and also the name of the web broker that implements this language. It is written in Bigloo Scheme. A web broker is a program that can act as a web server and a web proxy....

    , a web broker and programming language
  • Hop (networking)
    Hop (networking)
    Data packets often have to go through routers , if not several, before they reach their final destination. Each time packets are passed to the next router a hop occurs. .- Hop Count :The distance between two hosts...

    , next gateway along a path to a destination host
  • Hop (protein)
    Hop (protein)
    Hop, occasionally written HOP, is an abbreviation for Hsp70-Hsp90 Organizing Protein. It functions as a co-chaperone which reversibly links together the protein chaperones Hsp70 and Hsp90....

    , the Hsp70-Hsp90 organizing protein
  • Hop (telecommunications)
    Hop (telecommunications)
    In telecommunication, the term hop has the following meanings:#The excursion of a radio wave from the Earth to the ionosphere and back to the Earth...

    , a telecommunications term in several different contexts
  • Hop (film), a 2011 film

See also

  • Hopper (disambiguation)
  • Hopping (disambiguation)
  • Hip hop
    Hip hop
    Hip hop is a form of musical expression and artistic culture that originated in African-American and Latino communities during the 1970s in New York City, specifically the Bronx. DJ Afrika Bambaataa outlined the four pillars of hip hop culture: MCing, DJing, breaking and graffiti writing...

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