take a hop

1. 1.

   spring back; spring away from an impact

   “The rubber ball bounced”

   “These particles do not resile but they unite after they collide”

   Synonymsbounceresilespringboundreboundrecoilreverberatericochet

   Broaderjump

   Narrowerkick backskipcarom

Questions about take a hop

What does take a hop mean?

take a hop means "spring back; spring away from an impact".

What is another word for take a hop?

Close synonyms include bounce, resile, spring, bound, rebound. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is take a hop a common word?

take a hop is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.