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Verb: take a hop
  1. Move back in a roughly opposite direction after an impact
    "The rubber ball took a hop";
    - bounce, resile, spring, bound, rebound, recoil, reverberate, ricochet

Derived forms: taking a hop, takes a hop, took a hop, taken a hop

Type of: bound, jump, leap, spring