Lop definition
To cut off (a part), especially from a tree or shrub.
Lopped off the dead branches.
verb
To cut off a part or parts from; trim.
Lopped the vines back; lopped her curls shorter.
verb
To eliminate or excise as superfluous.
Lopped him from the payroll.
verb
To hang or let hang loosely; droop.
verb
To remove by or as by cutting off.
verb
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Something lopped off.
noun
To hang down loosely.
verb
To move in a halting way.
verb
Hanging down loosely.
adjective
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To allow to hang down.
To lop the head.
verb
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
noun
To trim (a tree, etc.) by cutting off branches, twigs, or stems.
verb
Origin of lop
- Perhaps from Middle English loppe small branches and twigs
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- Origin unknown
From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
- From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider"), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea"), from Proto-Germanic *luppÇ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper"), from Proto-Germanic *luppijanÄ… (“to jump, dart"). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea"), Swedish loppa (“flea"), Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to release and raise aloft, move quickly").
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- Back-formation from lopsided.
From Wiktionary
- From Middle English loppe.
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