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means To spring upward lightly on one or both legs, or, as a noun, the cone-shaped flower that gives beer its bitterness and aroma.

from The word splits into two different stories that happen to sound alike. The jumping verb traces back to Old English 'hoppian,' part of a wider Germanic family of words for bouncing and skipping. The plant name arrived later, likely from Middle Dutch 'hoppe,' brought into English as brewers started using the climbing vine's flowers to flavor and preserve beer. So a rabbit hops and a hop cone just happen to share a name — a coincidence of sound, not a shared root.