Definition of Hop up

1. Verb. Make more powerful. "He souped up the old cars"

Exact synonyms: Hot Up, Soup Up
Generic synonyms: Modify

Definition of Hop up

1. Verb. (transitive idiomatic) to make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Hop Up

hop field
hop freight
hop garden
hop gardens
hop hornbeam
hop hornbeams
hop it
hop joint
hop marjoram
hop n pop
hop off
hop on
hop out
hop pole
hop to it
hop up (current term)
hopak
hopaks
hopane
hopanes
hopanoid
hopanoids
hopback
hopbacks
hopbind
hopbinds
hopbine
hopbines
hopdog
hopdogs

Literary usage of Hop up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Massachusetts Reports: Cases Argued and Determined in the Supreme Judicial by Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court (1893)
"In passing frogs and switches, a pin will jump up and down, more or less, sometimes it will hop up and we cannot find it, and other times it will hop up and ..."

2. The Book of American Pastimes: Containing a History of the Principal Base by Charles A. Peverelly (1866)
"hop up, of Greenpoint, rowed by Oscar Teed, Henry Osborn, William Boggs, Jr., and WH Hays ; thirty-seven feet five inches long ; uniform, blue and white. ..."

3. The Green Fairy Book edited by Andrew Lang (1906)
"Medio Pollito,' called the wind, ' do hop up here, and help me to get free of ... This he knew must be the King's palace, and he determined to hop up to the ..."

4. Graded Classics by Margaret Winifred Haliburton, Frank Turner Norvell (1901)
"The chicks run to me. too too I like to see the chicks run to me. The chicks like to get to my hand. hop up, chicks, hop up! See the two chicks up on me! ..."

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