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hop it

hop it verb: to leave; to go away.

Verb

hop it (third-person singular simple present hops it, present participle hopping it, simple past and past participle hopped it)

  1. (UK, dismissal) To leave; to go away.
    • It has been rather misty for several mornings, so I told my pal to get ready and we would hop it the next day.1918 June 15, Private John A. Scott, “A Prisoner of War”, in The Saturday Evening Post, page 28
    • "You stop that!" cried a voice in the passage. "It's that blasted Jewess!" said the woman. She went to the kitchen door. "What the 'ell are you doing in our 'ouse? 'Op it, quick, or it will be the worse for you!"1925 July – 1926 May, A[rthur] Conan Doyle, “(please specify the chapter number)”, in The Land of Mist (eBook no. 0601351h.html), Australia: Project Gutenberg Australia, published April 2019

Examples of hop it in a sentence

  • ‘[…] But when the others found out about it they got a bit restive, and I had to hop it.1952, Charlotte Jay, Beat Not the Bones, Wakefield Press, published 2000, →ISBN, page 13:
  • Alan popped round too at lunchtime but I politely told him to hop it and call back later.2003, Stephen Walton, Interference, Lulu, published 2007, →ISBN, page 160:

Forms of hop it

third-person singular presenthops it
present participlehopping it
past participlehopped it
pasthopped it

Questions about hop it

What does hop it mean?
Hop it means to leave; to go away.
How do you use hop it in a sentence?
‘[…] But when the others found out about it they got a bit restive, and I had to hop it.
What part of speech is hop it?
Hop it is a verb.
What is the past tense of hop it?
The past tense of hop it is hopped it.

Words near hop it in the dictionary

  1. hop gardens
  2. hop hornbeam
  3. hop hornbeams
  4. hop in
  5. hop into
  6. hop it
  7. hop joint
  8. hop joints
  9. hop merchant
  10. hop merchants
  11. hop n pop

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