Lop Definition

lŏp
lopped, lopping, lops
verb
lopped, lopping, lops
To trim (a tree, etc.) by cutting off branches, twigs, or stems.
Webster's New World
To hang down loosely.
Webster's New World
To cut off a part or parts from; trim.
Lopped the vines back; lopped her curls shorter.
American Heritage
To remove by or as by cutting off.
Webster's New World
To move in a halting way.
Webster's New World
Synonyms:
noun
lops
Something lopped off.
Webster's New World

(Geordie) A flea.

Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
Wiktionary
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
Wiktionary

(US, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.

Wiktionary

Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

Wiktionary
adjective
Hanging down loosely.
Webster's New World

Other Word Forms of Lop

Noun

Singular:
lop
Plural:
lops

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").

    From Wiktionary

  • Perhaps from Middle English loppe small branches and twigs

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Back-formation from lopsided.

    From Wiktionary

  • From Middle English loppe.

    From Wiktionary

  • Origin unknown

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

Lop 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.

  • 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.

  • Of these Lop Nor and the Helmund hamuns are typical.

  • His fourth journey in 1883-1885 was to Sining (the great trade centre of the Chinese borderland), and thence through northern Tibet (crossing the Altyn Tagh to Lop Nor), and by the Cherchen-Keriya trade route to Khotan.

  • There are ampler expanses of hard saliferous clay (shor) and on the north side of the desert of Lop the surface has been carved and sculptured by the wind into innumerable flat, tabletopped masses (jardangs) with vertical or even overhanging sides, separated from one another by deep-cut, wind-swept gullies, running from north-east to south-west.

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Words Starting With

LLOLOP

Words Ending With

POPLOP

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Words Starting With L and Ending With P

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