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    Hop

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    A hop is a type of jump.

    Hop or hops may also refer to:

    Arts and entertainment[edit]

    • 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[edit]

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

    Places[edit]

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

    Plants[edit]

    • Humulus lupulus, the hop plant
      • Hops, its flower, used to prepare beer and other food

    Science and medicine[edit]

    • HOP (gene), encoding the homeodomain-only protein
    • Hop (protein), the Hsp70-Hsp90 organizing protein
    • Hubble Origins Probe, or HOP, a proposed orbital telescope

    Technology[edit]

    • Hop (networking), a portion of a route
    • Hop (software), a web broker and programming language
    • Hop (telecommunications)
    • 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[edit]

    • 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), 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)", streetcar system in Milwaukee

    Other uses[edit]

    • Hop (unit), a small Korean unit of volume
    • Croatian Liberation Movement (Croatian: Hrvatski oslobodilački pokret)
    • Heritage of Pride, 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, a minor league baseball team in the USA
    • Slang for Opium, heroin, or other narcotic or psychoactive drugs

    See also[edit]

    • Hopper (disambiguation)
    • Hopping (disambiguation)
    • Hopps
    • Hip hop
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