Sekirov Dictionary

lop

/lɒp/

verb 3
noun 4
forms 4
phrases 2

verb3

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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.
- Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d, — 1742
To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
To allow to hang down.

noun4

Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
•
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
- Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber — 1613
•
(slang, old-fashioned) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
- "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one." — 1935
•
A flea.
- Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

forms

lopped · lopt · lopping · lops

Phrases with lop

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