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hop noun- a narcotic – opium, morphine or heroin US, 1886
- Over and over he kept heating this small hunk of hop, rolling it on the thumb of his left hand until it was compact and looked like a tight little wad of cotton. — Mezz Mezzrow, Really the Blues, p. 98, 1946
- — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 38, 1947
- “We go up dark stairways to get a gun punk with a skinful of hop and sometimes we don’t get all the way up, and our wives wait dinner that night and all the other nights. — Raymond Chandler, The Little Sister, p. 218, 1949
- There was no hop behind his pupils so he was a classy workman being paid by an employer who knew what the score was. — Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 44, 1952
- I wasn’t high on the hop; I was high on withdrawal tone-up. — William Burroughs, Junkie, p. 108, 1953
- “Not perfume, honey, hop,” she said. And when I still didn’t get it, “Opium, don’t you know?” — Polly Adler, A House is Not a Home, p. 35, 1953
- They jumped from the sticks to St. Louis, and when he wasn’t dead drunk he was shotting himself full of hop. — Jim Thompson, The Grifters, p. 82, 1963
- a dance, a party UK, 1731
- Tonight I got a date with a Sigma, a keen babe, for a hop at the Shoreland Hotel. — James T. Farrell, Saturday Night, p. 35, 1947
- Some characters tap the female college alumnae lists for recent graduates resident in Washington, then pick names at random and phone with an invitation to a Yale or Princeton hop which never seems to come off. — Jack Lait and Lee Mortimer, Washington Confidential, p. 89, 1951
- in handball, a ball which breaks to the left or right after rebounding off the front wall US
- — Peter Tyson and Mort Leve, Handball, p. 68, 1972: “Glossary of handball terms”
- in craps, a one-roll bet on the next roll US
- — Thomas L. Clark, The Dictonary of Gambling, p. 103, 1987
▶ on the hop playing truant UK- [M]y cousin, Tony McLean, and me were on the hop from school. — Lenny McLean, The Guv’nor, p. 6, 1998
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