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hop up

hop up verb: to excite (people).

Verb

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

  1. (transitive) To excite (people).
  2. (intransitive) To get in a high vehicle.
  3. (intransitive) To stand up quickly.
  4. (idiomatic, transitive) To make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.); to soup up.
  5. Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hop, up.
    • Don't let the cat hop up onto the kitchen counter!

Forms of hop up

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

Questions about hop up

What does hop up mean?
Hop up means to excite (people).
What part of speech is hop up?
Hop up is a verb.
What is the past tense of hop up?
The past tense of hop up is hopped up.

Words near hop up in the dictionary

  1. hop steps
  2. hop the twig
  3. hop the wag
  4. hop to it
  5. hop trefoil
  6. hop up
  7. hop, skip and jump
  8. hop, skip, and a jump
  9. hop, skip, and jump
  10. hop, step and jump
  11. hop-forward

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