Hop
# Hop

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 (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

## Plants

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

## Technology

* 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

* 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

* 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
