Hop on

verb, slang

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To join a phone call or video call. informal, transitive

    "When you're apart and dealing with separate (often conflicting) schedules, it can feel like you aren't a priority to your partner. Nix that feeling by regularly scheduling a date night once or twice a week. Order in delivery, hop on Skype, a Google Hangout, or Facetime, and chat face to face over your meal."

  2. 2
    get up on the back of wordnet
  3. 3
    To begin playing a video game. intransitive, slang, transitive

    "If you hopped on Fortnite and witnessed the meteor shower, you may be wondering how common that is in real life. Throughout the year, hundreds of meteoroids come into contact with our Earth and its atmosphere, most burning up before they ever reach the Earth's surface."

  4. 4
    To reprimand or scold (someone); to attack or beat up (someone). transitive
  5. 5
    Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see hop, on.

    "But over the last two weeks, the country has been convulsed by fury and disbelief as more than a dozen politicians, political aides and senior public health figures have admitted to hopping on a plane for tropical vacations over the winter holiday."

Etymology

From hop + on.

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