1882. Daily Telegraph, 13 Nov., p. 5, c. 3. At all seasons there is an immense amount of dancing; and at Washington there are continual ‘hotel hops’ in the winter.
1887. W. S. Gilbert, Patience, ii. Prefers suburban hops To all your Monday Pops.
1889. Lippincott, Oct., p. 447. Hang me if she isn’t always on the plain, or at a hop, with one of those twin kids! [[347]]
1892. Kipling, Barrack Room Ballads. ‘Gentlemen Rankers.’ To dance with blowzy housemaids at the regimental hops.
Hop-and-go-kick, subs. phr. (tailors’).—A lameter; a Hop-and-go-one. Cf., Dot-and-carry-one.
To hop the wag, verb. phr. (common).—To play truant, or Charley-wag (q.v.).
1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, iii., 207. They often persuaded me to hop the wag, that is play truant from school.
To hop (or jump) over the broom (or broomstick), verb. phr. (colloquial).—To live as husband and wife; to live (or go) tally (q.v.).
1811. Poole, Hamlet Travestied, ii., 3. Jump o’er a broomstick, but don’t make a farce on The marriage ceremonies of the parson.
1851–61. Mayhew, Lond. Lab. and Lond. Poor, i., 336. There was always a broomstick wedding. Without that ceremony a couple weren’t looked on as man and wife.