Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- intransitive verb To move with a bobbing motion.
- intransitive verb Chiefly British To lounge about; loll.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To loll or lounge idly; move heavily or be tossed about.
- noun A sprawl; a flop.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- intransitive verb Low. To move heavily; to lounge or idle; to loll.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To walk with a
bouncing motion. - verb To loll or lounge
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb walk clumsily and with a bounce
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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But Julia marched on, and started to lollop and then to jog.
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When I got to the County trials though I met people who put my enthuastic lollop into perspective.
Reminds Me Of Me Newmania 2007
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We watched a surfing dog lollop frantically in the sand here I'll post more pics on Flickr -- and I remembered, for an instant, the freedom of not needing to be watching anyone, not needing to be "on."
blog: June 2008 2008
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We watched a surfing dog lollop frantically in the sand here I'll post more pics on Flickr -- and I remembered, for an instant, the freedom of not needing to be watching anyone, not needing to be "on."
blog: Tofino 2008
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Although the town is still accessible only by train or light aircraft, its guesthouses are packed during late summer and autumn, when the vast ice-sheet over the bay melts, forcing around 1,000 bears to lollop around for months on the shore.
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I don't have time to lollop downstairs, drenched, and whip up some stink-fre towels.
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I don't have time to lollop downstairs, drenched, and whip up some stink-fre towels.
blog: October 2007 2007
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I resumed my hat, and the rabbit lolloped a lollop or so out of my way.
Twelve Stories and a Dream, by H. G. Wells Herbert George 2006
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I on the other hand would marvel at the brisk pace they would lollop off on when we were supposed to be having a leisurely walk....
Winter blues, walking slow, walking fast, the been-to way uknaija 2005
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I on the other hand would marvel at the brisk pace they would lollop off on when we were supposed to be having a leisurely walk....
Archive 2005-11-01 uknaija 2005
vanishedone commented on the word lollop
'Atmosphere does not abound. It kind of lollops.'
- John Walker's PC Gamer (UK) review of Martian Gothic Unification
October 23, 2007
missanthropist commented on the word lollop
To lounge or saunter heavily. Loll-poop, a sluggish sedentary lounger. Literally, one whom is sluggish in the stern.
Rev. Robert Forby, Vocabulary of East Anglia, 1830
May 20, 2008
qms commented on the word lollop
He talks, drunk or dry, his codswallop.
That odd bob and dip?
Is it born of a sip
Or just an old mariner's lollop?
January 4, 2015