Lop meaning

lŏp
To cut off (a part), especially from a tree or shrub.

Lopped off the dead branches.

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To cut off a part or parts from; trim.

Lopped the vines back; lopped her curls shorter.

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To eliminate or excise as superfluous.

Lopped him from the payroll.

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To hang or let hang loosely; droop.
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To trim (a tree, etc.) by cutting off branches, twigs, or stems.
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To remove by or as by cutting off.
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Something lopped off.
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To hang down loosely.
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To move in a halting way.
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Hanging down loosely.
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(Geordie) A flea.

Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

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(usually with off) To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone.
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To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
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To allow to hang down.

To lop the head.

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That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

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(US, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
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Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
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Origin of lop

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").

Sentence Examples

  • The great central depression of the continent which reaches from the foot of the Pamir plateau on the west through the Tarim desert to Lop Nor and the Gobi has yielded up many interesting Chinese secrets.

  • above sea-level, forming an intermediate steppe between the highest regions and the lowest, east of Lop Nor.

  • 2 0n the opposite or north side of the desert of Lop (desert of Gobi).

  • above sea, and modern researches tend to prove that in the central portions of the Gobi (about Lop Nor) it may be actually below sea-level.

  • He had meant only to lop off a few ultramontane extremists; he succeeded in sending Catholics of every shade and colour pell-mell into the arms of Rome.

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