The barley hops design worked up into the eaves, then the dentil work comes directly off the can's red, white, blue and silver.

There are many ways to be a mammal. A 'roo hops in Oz a horse runs in Asia and a wolf evolves stilt legs in Brazil.

And eventually some crow gets a bright idea that, Hey, there's lots of coins lying around from the first stage, lying around on the ground, hops down, picks it up, drops it in the slot.

A small world network is a type of mathematical graph in which most nodes are not neighbors of one another, but most nodes can be reached from every other by a small number of hops or steps.

And, in a way, that's exactly how packets move around the Internet, sometimes in as many as 25 or 30 hops, with the intervening entities that are passing the data around having no particular contractual or legal obligation to the original sender or to the receiver.