A hop is a type of jump. Hop or hops may also refer to:

Arts and entertainment

* ''Hop'' (film), a 2011 film * Hop! Channel, an Israeli TV channel * '' House of Payne'', or ''HOP'', an American sitcom * Lindy Hop, a swing dance of the 1920s and 1930s * Sock hop, an informal gathering which includes dancing * Hop Harrigan, a character in American comic books, radio serials and film serials from 1939 into the 1940s * Hop, a character from '' Pokémon Sword and Shield''

People

* Hop Bartlett, American baseball pitcher in the Negro leagues in 1924 and 1925 *

Hop Wilson Harding "Hop" Wilson (April 27, 1921 – August 27, 1975) was an American Texas blues steel guitar player. Wilson gained the nickname "Hop" as a devolution of "Harp" due to his constant playing of a harmonica as a child. His low sounding playing ...

(1921–1975), American Texas blues steel guitar player

Places

* Hop River, Connecticut, United States *

Hop Creek Hop Creek is a stream in the U.S. state of South Dakota. Hop Creek received its name from the abundant hops on its course. See also *List of rivers of South Dakota This is a list of rivers in the state of South Dakota in the United States. By ...

, South Dakota, United States *

Hóp (Iceland) The lake Hóp () is situated in the north of Iceland near Blönduós at the Húnafjörður. In reality, the lake is more of a lagoon than a lake. Its surface area depends on the tides and oscillates between 29 and 44 km2. Its greatest depth ...

, a lake * Hóp, a Viking settlement in Vinland

Plants

* '' Humulus lupulus'', the hop plant **

Hops Hops are the flowers (also called seed cones or strobiles) of the hop plant ''Humulus lupulus'', a member of the Cannabaceae family of flowering plants. They are used primarily as a bittering, flavouring, and stability agent in beer, to whi ...

, its flower, used to prepare beer and other food

Science and medicine

HOP (gene) Homeodomain-only protein is a protein that in humans is encoded by the ''HOPX'' gene. It is an important regulator of cardiac development and a marker of hippocampal neural stem cells. Function The protein encoded by this gene is a homeodomai ...

, encoding the homeodomain-only protein * Hop (protein), the Hsp70-Hsp90 organizing protein *

Hubble Origins Probe The Hubble Origins Probe (HOP) was a proposal for an orbital telescope made in 2005 in response to the first cancellation of the fourth Hubble Space Telescope (HST) servicing mission. It would have used an Atlas V rocket or similar launch vehicl ...

, or HOP, a proposed orbital telescope

Technology

* Hop (networking), a portion of a route *

Hop (software) Hop is a Lisp-like programming language by Manuel Serrano for web 2.0 and also the name of the web broker (server and proxy) that implements this language. It is written in Bigloo Scheme. It is a project funded by INRIA The National Instit ...

, a web broker and programming language * Hop (telecommunications) *

Hindsight optimization Hindsight optimisation (HOP) is a computer science technique used in artificial intelligence Artificial intelligence (AI) is intelligence—perceiving, synthesizing, and inferring information—demonstrated by machines, as opposed to intel ...

, or Hop, an artificial intelligence technique * High Octet Preset, or HOP, a C1 control character *

Spike (application) Spike is an email application for Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android and the web, which enables users to view email in a chat-like, conversational format, with additional features built-in. History Founded in 2013 by Erez Pilosof and Dvir Ben-Aroya, S ...

, an email app formerly known as ''Hop''

Transport

Air France Hop Air France Hop, formerly branded HOP!, is a French regional airline operating flights on behalf of its parent company Air France. The airline was founded on 21 December 2012http://www.verif.com/societe/HOP!-790151716/ after the merger of Airlin ...

, a French airline *

HOP card The AT HOP card is an electronic fare payment card that was released in two versions on Auckland public transport services, beginning in May 2011. The smart card roll out was the first phase in the introduction of an integrated ticketing and ...

, a smart card used on public transit in Auckland, New Zealand *

Heritage Operations Processing System Heritage Operations Processing System, Heritage Ops, or HOPS, is a web-based tool for the day-to-day running and management of preserved and heritage railways. The system was developed, from a concept drawn up by Danny Scroggins and Luke Carte ...

, a tool for management of historic railways *

Hope (Derbyshire) railway station 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 (Flintshire) railway station , symbol_location = gb , symbol = rail , image = Platform 1, Hope railway station (geograph 4032659).jpg , borough = Hope, Flintshire, Flintshire , country = Wales , coordinates ...

, in Wales * "The Hop", the brand for

public transport in Sydney Transport in Sydney is provided by an extensive network of public transport operating modes including metro, train, bus, ferry and light rail, as well as an expansive network of roadways, cycleways and airports. According to the 2006 census ...

and New South Wales * " The Hop (streetcar)", streetcar system in Milwaukee

Other uses

* Hop (unit), a small Korean unit of volume * Croatian Liberation Movement (Croatian: ') * Heritage of Pride, or HOP, the organizer of the annual gay pride march in New York City * ''

Higher-Order Perl ''Higher-Order Perl: Transforming Programs with Programs'' (), is a book about the Perl programming language written by Mark Jason Dominus with the goal to teach Perl programmers with a strong C and Unix background how to use techniques with ro ...

'', or ''HOP'', a Perl programming book * Hillsboro Hops, a minor league baseball team in the USA * Slang for

Opium Opium (or poppy tears, scientific name: ''Lachryma papaveris'') is dried latex obtained from the seed capsules of the opium poppy ''Papaver somniferum''. Approximately 12 percent of opium is made up of the analgesic alkaloid morphine, which i ...

heroin Heroin, also known as diacetylmorphine and diamorphine among other names, is a potent opioid mainly used as a recreational drug for its euphoric effects. Medical grade diamorphine is used as a pure hydrochloride salt. Various white and brow ...

, or other

narcotic The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek ναρκῶ ''narkō'', "to make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates ...

psychoactive A psychoactive drug, psychopharmaceutical, psychoactive agent or psychotropic drug is a chemical substance, that changes functions of the nervous system, and results in alterations in perception, mood, consciousness, cognition or behavior. Th ...

drugs