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