A hop is a type of

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. Hop or hops may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Hop'' (film), a 2011 film * Hop! Channel, an Israeli TV channel * ''

House of Payne ''House of Payne'' is an American sitcom television series created and produced by Tyler Perry that premiered in syndication on June 21, 2006. The series revolves around a multi-generational family living under one roof in Atlanta led by patriarc ...

'', or ''HOP'', an American sitcom *

Lindy Hop The Lindy Hop is an American dance which was born in the Black communities of Harlem, New York City, in 1928 and has evolved since then. It was very popular during the swing era of the late 1930s and early 1940s. Lindy is a fusion of many danc ...

, a swing dance of the 1920s and 1930s *

Sock hop A sock hop or sox hop, often also called a record hop or just a hop, was an informal sponsored dance event for teenagers in mid-20th-century North America, featuring popular music. History Sock hops were held as early as 1944 by the American J ...

, an informal gathering which includes dancing *

Hop Harrigan Hop Harrigan (also known as The Guardian Angel and Black Lamp) is a fictional character published by All-American Publications. He appeared in American comic books, radio serials and film serials. He was created by Jon Blummer, and was a popular h ...

, a character in American comic books, radio serials and film serials from 1939 into the 1940s * Hop, a character from ''

Pokémon Sword and Shield and are 2019 role-playing video games developed by Game Freak and published by The Pokémon Company and Nintendo for the Nintendo Switch console. They are the first installments in the eighth generation of the Pokémon (video game series), '' ...

People

Hop Bartlett James Homer Bartley Sr. (February 28, 1900 – May 2, 1972), born "Homer Robert Bartley" and known as Homer "Hop" Bartlett, was an American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues. A native of Boone County, Missouri, he played with the Indianapolis ...

, American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues in 1924 and 1925 * Hop Wilson (1921–1975), American Texas blues steel guitar player

Places

* Hop River, Connecticut, United States * Hop Creek, South Dakota, United States * Hóp (Iceland), a lake * Hóp, a Viking settlement in

Vinland Vinland, Vineland, or Winland ( non, Vínland ᚠᛁᚾᛚᛅᚾᛏ) was an area of coastal North America explored by Vikings. Leif Erikson landed there around 1000 AD, nearly five centuries before the voyages of Christopher Columbus and John ...

Plants

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Humulus lupulus ''Humulus lupulus'', the common hop or hops, is a species of flowering plant in the hemp family Cannabinaceae, native to Europe, western Asia and North America. It is a perennial, herbaceous climbing plant which sends up new shoots in early s ...

'', the hop plant ** Hops, its flower, used to prepare beer and other food

Science and medicine

* HOP (gene), encoding the homeodomain-only protein *

Hop (protein) Hop, occasionally written HOP, is an abbreviation for Hsp70-Hsp90 Organizing Protein. It functions as a co-chaperone which reversibly links together the protein chaperones Hsp70 and Hsp90. Hop belongs to the large group of co-chaperones, which r ...

, the Hsp70-Hsp90 organizing protein * Hubble Origins Probe, or HOP, a proposed orbital telescope

Technology

Hop (networking) In wired computer networking, including the Internet, a hop occurs when a packet is passed from one network segment to the next. Data packets pass through routers as they travel between source and destination. The hop count refers to the numbe ...

, a portion of a route * Hop (software), a web broker and programming language *

Hop (telecommunications) In telecommunication, a hop is a portion of a signal's journey from source to receiver. Examples include: #The excursion of a radio wave from the Earth to the ionosphere and back to the Earth. The number of hops indicates the number of reflecti ...

* Hindsight optimization, or Hop, an artificial intelligence technique * High Octet Preset, or HOP, a C1 control character * Spike (application), an email app formerly known as ''Hop''

Transport

* Air France Hop, a French airline * HOP card, a smart card used on public transit in Auckland, New Zealand * Heritage Operations Processing System, a tool for management of historic railways *

Hope railway station (England) Hope railway station serves the villages of Hope and Brough in the Derbyshire Peak District of England, west of . The station lies between the two villages, around 1 km east of Hope, and also serves Bradwell and Castleton; the latt ...

, in England * Hope station (Arkansas), in Arkansas, United States * "The Hop", the brand for public transport in Sydney and New South Wales * "

The Hop (streetcar) The Hop, also known as the Milwaukee Streetcar, is a modern streetcar system in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The initial line connects the Milwaukee Intermodal Station and Downtown to the Lower East Side and Historic Third Ward neighborhoods. A Lakef ...

", streetcar system in Milwaukee

Other uses

* Hop (unit), a small Korean unit of volume *

Croatian Liberation Movement The Croatian Liberation Movement ( hr, Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret, HOP) is a minor far-right political party founded in 1956 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, by Ante Pavelić, poglavnik of the Independent State of Croatia and its ruling party Ustas ...

(Croatian: ') *

Heritage of Pride Heritage of Pride (HOP), doing business as NYC Pride, is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization that plans and produces the official New York City LGBTQIA+ Pride Week events each June. HOP began working on the events in 1984, taking on the work previ ...

, or HOP, the organizer of the annual gay pride march in New York City * '' Higher-Order Perl'', or ''HOP'', a Perl programming book *

Hillsboro Hops The Hillsboro Hops are a Minor League Baseball team in the northwest United States, located in Hillsboro, Oregon, a city in the Portland metropolitan area. The Hops are members of the Northwest League as an affiliate of the Arizona Diamondbacks. ...

, a minor league baseball team in the USA * Slang for Opium, heroin, or other narcotic or psychoactive drugs