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1925–30, from Ukrainian гопа́к (hopák), from the interjection гоп (hop).

Compare Ukrainian го́пати (hópaty), го́пкати (hópkaty), гопцюва́ти (hopcjuváty), го́пки (hópky), and dated Ukrainian го́пи (hópy, dance steps), го́пка (hópka, child (jocular)).

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hopak (plural hopaks)

  1. A Ukrainian national dance in 2/4 time.
    • 2006, Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day, Vintage, published 2007, page 1213:
      Somewhere an accordion was playing a jazz-inflected hopak.

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  • “hopak” in the Canadian Oxford Dictionary, Second Edition, Oxford University Press, 2004.
  • hopak”, in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
  • Melnychuk, O. S., editor (1982–2012), “гоп”, in Етимологічний словник української мови [Etymological Dictionary of the Ukrainian Language] (in Ukrainian), Kyiv: Naukova Dumka

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hopak m (plural hopaks)

  1. hopak