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Idiom idiom

hop off


To back off; to leave alone.

Meaning adapted from Wiktionary, available under CC BY-SA 4.0.


SIMPLE

Just hop off and leave me alone.

CONTEXTUAL

He kept asking about my private life, so I told him to hop off.

COMPLEX

After the persistent salesman refused to take no for an answer, she firmly told him to hop off and stop bothering her.


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    bunny hop

    A dance from the big band era, a variation of the conga, in which dancers made small jumps with feet together.

  2. 02

    hop the wag

    To play truant (be absent from school without permission).

  3. 03

    hop up

    To make something, especially a machine, better (faster, bigger etc.); to soup up.

  4. 04

    hopping mad

    Extremely angry; furious to the point of outburst.

Last updated August 10, 2026