Hop

Look up hop, họp, hóp, or hớp in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.

Hop or hops usually refers to a kind of small jump, usually using only one leg can also be on two. It can also refer to:

Plants

• Hops, a flower used to prepare beer and other food items
  • Humulus lupulus, the species of plants which is grown commercially in many countries to produce hops

Entertainment

• Lindy Hop, a swing dance of the 1920s and 1930s
• Sock Hop, an informal gathering which includes dancing
• Hop, the Bellhop, a 1919 silent comedy film featuring Oliver Hardy
• Hop, a 2002 film starring Jan Decleir
• Hop (film), a 2011 film

Technology

• Hop (software), a web broker and programming language
• Hop (networking), next gateway along a path to a destination host
• Hop (telecommunications), a telecommunications term in several different contexts

Transport

• HOP!, an airline subsidiary of Air France
• HOP card, smartcard ticket used in Auckland (NZ) buses
• "The Hop", the brand for public transport in Sydney and New South Wales
• Heritage Operations Processing System, a tool for management of historic railways

Other uses

• Hop, informal term for opium, a narcotic drug
• Hop (protein), the Hsp70-Hsp90 organizing protein
• Hop River, a river in Connecticut, USA
• Hillsboro Hops, a minor league baseball team in the USA

See also

• Hopper (disambiguation)
• Hopping (disambiguation)
• Hip hop
• Hopps