From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishhop a plane/bus/train etchop a plane/bus/train etcAmerican English informalGET ON OR OFF A BUS, PLANE ETC to get on a plane, bus, train etc, especially after suddenly deciding to do so So we hopped a bus to Phoenix that night. → hop
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hop a plane/bus/train etc• He would just hop trains and stuff.• Elated, Daley and Sis hopped a plane for a vacation in the Florida Keys.• Receiving assurances that there was no ethnic dimension to the role he had been offered, Hoch hopped a plane headed west. 