hopped

1. 1
   verb

   Past tense and past participle of hop.

   He hopped the fence and sprinted into the woods.

   By the time we came back, the sparrows had hopped closer to the bread crumbs.

   Note

   The doubled p is the thing to watch: hopped comes from hop, while hoped, with one p, is the past of hope. The same form serves the simple past (the frog hopped away) and the participle after have (the sparrows had hopped closer). Some meanings take a direct object with no preposition, so you can hop a fence or hop a train.

2. 2
   adjective

   Infused or permeated with hops.

   The brewery is known for its aggressively hopped pale ales.

   This year's batch came out even more hopped than last year's, and the regulars noticed.

   Similarhoppy

   Note

   An adjective built on the noun hops rather than on the verb, so it shares only its spelling with the past of hop. It grades freely, more hopped and most hopped, and takes adverbs of degree in front of it: lightly hopped, heavily hopped, aggressively hopped pale ales.

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