Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive & transitive verb To hang or let hang loosely; droop.
- transitive verb To cut off (a part), especially from a tree or shrub.
- transitive verb To cut off a part or parts from; trim.
- transitive verb To eliminate or excise as superfluous.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A hanging down; a drooping, as of the ears of rabbits.
- To hang down loosely; droop: said especially of the pendulous ears of some animals, as dogs and rabbits.
- To bend indolently sidewise or downward; loll; lounge.
- To let droop; allow to hang down: as, a horse lops his ears.
- noun That which is cut from trees; fagot-wood.
- noun Every part; the whole.
- noun A flea.
- noun A spider.
- To cut off, as the top or extreme part of anything; shorten or reduce by cutting off the extremities; cut off, as superfluous parts; trim by cutting: as, to
lop a tree or its branches. - To cut partly off and bend down: as, to
lop the saplings of a hedge. - noun An obsolete preterit of
leap . - To break in short, ‘loppy’ waves.
- noun A short, ‘loppy’ sea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to shorten by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove, as superfluous parts.
- transitive verb To cut partly off and bend down.
- noun That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
- noun obsolete A flea.
- intransitive verb To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- transitive verb To let hang down.
- adjective Hanging down; ; -- used also in compound adjectives
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
cut off as thetop orextreme part of anything, especially toprune a small limb off ashrub ortree , or sometimes tobehead someone. - noun US, slang (usually
offensive ) A disabled person, acripple . - noun Geordie A
flea .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb cut off from a whole
- verb cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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As lop is not very nourishing he used to take the money to a shop and get a glass of ginger beer, some broken pieces of meringue and a slice of streaky bacon.
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Such disparities result in lop-sided and unfair policies that need to be changed to meet everyone’s needs, Meter pointed out.
Archive 2010-05-01 Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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Such disparities result in lop-sided and unfair policies that need to be changed to meet everyone’s needs, Meter pointed out.
The Economics of Organic Farming Olga Bonfiglio 2010
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Despite participation by trade unions on both sides, the analysis was variously called lop-sided in favor of employers, a misunderstanding of the American system, or a helpful industrial study leading in
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2008
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é, cf. párallel des Mŏines * dəmŏin despãir désperate cf. dísparate, séparate desperâtion despícable dessërt meal - zërt = desërt leave detêriorate detërmíne detérrent detrîtus dévastate devastâtion devélop rhymes with envélop verb, cf. énvelôpe noun devélopment devîce - ss, cf. divîde devîse - z, cf.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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é, cf. párallel des Mŏines * dəmŏin despãir désperate cf. dísparate, séparate desperâtion despícable dessërt meal - zërt = desërt leave detêriorate detërmíne detérrent detrîtus dévastate devastâtion devélop rhymes with envélop verb, cf. énvelôpe noun devélopment devîce - ss, cf. divîde devîse - z, cf.
Citizendium, the Citizens' Compendium - Recent changes [en] 2009
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GOODWIN: But I think, though, what happens is, when you kind of lop off a head in this case, attorney general's head, that would sort of end it.
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Any attempt to get these machines off the water in a North Sea 'lop' infallibly led to their destruction.
The War in the Air; Vol. 1 The Part played in the Great War by the Royal Air Force Walter Alexander Raleigh 1891
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The problem with this kind of lop-sided reservation is that the real beneficiaries of reservation may be the economically well-off among the "backward community" members who generation after generation reap the benefits at the expense of those who are poor and illiterate.
Analysis 2010
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The problem with this kind of lop-sided reservation is that the real beneficiaries of reservation may be the economically well-off among the "backward community" members who generation after generation reap the benefits at the expense of those who are poor and illiterate.
Analysis 2010
gulyasrobi commented on the word lop
"lop" in Hungarian means: to steal
August 1, 2012