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hop

noun as in jump on one leg

verb as in jump on one leg

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Almost all of the nation’s beer hops—and roughly 40 percent of all hops in the world—are grown by about 75 farms in Washington, Oregon, and Idaho, many of them owned by families who have farmed hops for four or five generations.

Although many people like hops in beer, the team said, growing actual hops requires enormous amounts of water and energy, which makes the taste highly variable between crops.

Even though we wanted to go to the sock hop and party and do all those things and go to the circus like any other kid, we were exposed to other things.

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At each location, the team measured the concentrations of four aroma glycosides in each hop cultivar.

Breeding hop varieties to have lower concentrations could diminish the “beer creep” problem faced by large-volume craft brewers who distribute their beer over long distances.

“I think the types of stories we do are very similar to what happened with hip-hop,” says Jones.

So here I am in my requisite Lululemon pants, grunting along to an old hip-hop song at a most ungodly hour.

This was a guy from the hip-hop generation and with a perspective that was inextricably linked to that generation.

I asked her how her trainers, born and raised in Iran, have learned how to teach hip-hop.

She attends hip-hop and belly dance classes (known as Arabic dance in Iran) just to shine more at parties.

What more could one desire of him, I pray, Than just to hop around and stand for K?

The Kangaroo can hop and hop and hop; Somehow he never seems to want to stop.

He skirted the place with a quick goosey hop, stumbled a little and felt panic, but made it all right to the office.

Jehosophat wished he were as small as Hop-o'-my-Thumb, so that he could creep through the keyhole and never be seen at all.

The first hop took it to the top of the pew; the second perched it on the shoulder of the stoutest lady.

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On this page you'll find 87 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to hop, such as: bounce, bound, caper, dance, hurdle, and leap.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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