Hop

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Hop or hops may refer to:

• Hop, a kind of small jump, especially using only one leg
• Hop (plant), a genus of climbing flowering plants
• Hops, the female flower clusters of one species of hop, used primarily as a flavouring and stability agent in beer
• Hop, a type of dance, including:
  • Lindy Hop, a swing dance of the 1920s and 1930s
  • Sock Hop, an informal dance
• Hóp, a Viking name for what was possibly a part of the North American coast (see Vinland)
• Hóp, an Icelandic lake
• Hop River, a river in Connecticut, USA
• Hop, informal term for opium, a narcotic drug
• Hop (software), a web broker and programming language
• Hop (protein), the Hsp70-Hsp90 organizing protein
• Hop (telecommunications), a telecommunications term in several different contexts, e.g. paths of transmission, distances of routers (metrics: hop count, not length)

HOP may refer to:

• HOP, Heritage of Pride, a gay, bisexual and transgender organization
• HOP, Higher-Order Perl, a book written for Perl programmers
• HOP, House of Prayer Christian Church, a Pentecostal Holiness Christian denomination
• HOP, Hubble Origins Probe, an orbital telescope
• HOP, a control character in the C1 control code set: see C0 and C1 control codes

[edit] See also

• Hopper
• Hopping