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hop
verb- to work as a car hop at a drive-in restaurant where customers are served in their cars US
- She wore lots of cheap wigs, waited tables or hopped cars, was truly hung, might chew gum, posed for pictures, and got most of her fun in groups. — Dan Jenkins, Semi-Tough, p. 72, 1972
- to go, to travel UK, 1923
- When lack of nightlife begins to grate, hop over to Rhodes Town. — The Observer, 16 November 2003
- to flee or escape US
- — Hyman E. Goldin et al., Dictionary of American Underworld Lingo, p. 101, 1950
- in horse racing, to administer an illegal drug to a horse, either a stimulant or a depressant US
- — Tom Ainslie, Ainslie’s Complete Guide to Thoroughbred Racing, p. 333, 1976
▶ hop ’n’ pop
in the language of parachuting, to pull the ripcord within three seconds of clearing the aircraft US- — Dan Poynter, Parachuting, p. 167, 1978: “The language of parachuting”
▶ hop a hole
(used of a ball in pinball) to fall into and then keep moving out of an ejecting hole because of high velocity US- — Bobbye Claire Natkin and Steve Kirk, All About Pinball, p. 113, 1977
▶ hop and pop
to wake up and spring into action US- — Seattle Times, p. A9, 12 April 1998: “Grunts, squids not grunting from the same dictionary”
▶ hop bells
to work in a hotel as a bell hop US, 1942- I formerly hopped bells with him. — Jim Thompson, Bad Boy, p. 365, 1953
- Why I juggled a tray in a New York cafe / and I hopped hotel bells in Chi. — Bruce Jackson, Get Your Ass in the Water and Swim Like Me, p. 72, 1962
▶ hop in for your chop
to take your share AUSTRALIA- Hop in for your chop. Make ’em give you everything you’re entitled to. — Eric Lambert, The Veterans, p. 16, 1954
▶ hop into the horsecollar
(from a male perspective) to have sex AUSTRALIA
From HORSECOLLARTo “hop into the horsecollar” is to engage in a form of romantic dalliance[.] — Barry Humphries, Bazza Pulls It Off!, 1971▶ hop it; ’oppit
to depart, especially to depart quickly UK, 1910- Well, we hangs about for ages and I reckons we ought to ’oppit, and we was just about to go off when we sees them coming. — John Peter Jones, Feather Pluckers, p. 19, 1964
▶ hop the train
to ride the subway (underground) without paying the fare US- — Maria Hinojas, Crews, p. 167, 1995: “Glossary”
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