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HOP OUT
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Dictionary entry overview: What does hop out mean?
• HOP OUT (verb)
The verb HOP OUT has 1 sense:
1. get out of quickly
Familiarity information: HOP OUT used as a verb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Get out of quickly
Classified under:
Verbs of walking, flying, swimming
Synonyms:
get off; hop out
Context example:
The officer hopped out when he spotted an illegally parked car
Hypernyms (to "hop out" is one way to...):
exit; get out; go out; leave (move out of or depart from)
Sentence frame:
Somebody ----s
Antonym:
hop on (get up on the back of)
Context examples
Can't be helped, Marmee, so you must resign yourself to all sorts of worries, and let your birds hop out of the nest, one by one.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
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