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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To cut off (a part), especially from a tree or shrub: lopped off the dead branches.
  2. v. To cut off a part or parts from; trim: lopped the vines back; lopped her curls shorter.
  3. v. To eliminate or excise as superfluous: lopped him from the payroll.
  4. v. To hang or let hang loosely; droop.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To hang down loosely; droop: said especially of the pendulous ears of some animals, as dogs and rabbits.
  2. To bend indolently sidewise or downward; loll; lounge.
  3. To let droop; allow to hang down: as, a horse lops his ears.
  4. n. A hanging down; a drooping, as of the ears of rabbits.
  5. 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.
  6. To cut partly off and bend down: as, to lop the saplings of a hedge. Synonyms To dock, crop, prune.
  7. n. That which is cut from trees; fagot-wood.
  8. n. Every part; the whole.
  9. n. A flea.
  10. n. A spider.
  11. n. An obsolete preterit of leap.
  12. To break in short, ‘loppy’ waves.
  13. n. A short, ‘loppy’ sea.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Geordie A flea.
  2. v. transitive 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.
  3. n. US, slang (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. n. obsolete A flea.
  2. v. 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.
  3. v. To cut partly off and bend down.
  4. n. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
  5. v. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  6. v. To let hang down.
  7. adj. Hanging down; ; -- used also in compound adjectives

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. cut off from a whole
  2. v. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

Etymologies

  1. Back-formation from lopsided. (Wiktionary)
  2. Perhaps from Middle English loppe, small branches and twigs.Origin unknown. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “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.”

    The Economics of Organic Farming

  • “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”

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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.”

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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.”

    CNN Transcript Mar 16, 2007

  • “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

  • “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.”

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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 "backward community" members who generation after generation reap the benefits at the expense of the real needy from the general sections as has been seen in the case of the 22.5 percent quotas in the institutions of higher education like the IIMs, IITs etc.”

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  • “lop," like that of many another of his kind, led him to enlarge upon”

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  • “This incred­i­ble moment in the his­tory of evo­lu­tion was made even more remark­able by the tech­nol­ogy behind it: the game had fig­ured out, pro­ce­du­rally, how a crea­ture would walk if it had three legs (it was a kind of lop­sided gait, if you’re curi­ous, with three steps: left, right, then mid­dle.)”

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synonyms (5)

Words with the same meaning

  1. flea
  1. cut
  1. chop
  1. hang
  1. droop

hypernyms (1)

Words that are more generic or abstract

  1. cut

same context (20)

Words that are found in similar contexts

  1. fresh-cut
  2. topmost
  3. interruptive
  4. deodar
  1. short-haired
  2. unexcited
  3. lowermost
  4. damascene
  1. Johnsonian
  2. syringing
  3. thirty-mile
  4. long
  1. waddling
  2. excelsior
  3. well-adjusted
  4. pfizer
  1. barley sugar
  2. era
  3. unsurprised
  4. low-hanging

rhymes (27)

Words with the same terminal sound

  1. Bopp
  2. Pop
  3. atop
  4. bop
  5. chop
  1. cop
  2. crop
  3. drop
  4. flop
  5. glop
  1. hop
  2. knop
  3. mop
  4. nonstop
  5. op
  1. opp
  2. plop
  3. pop
  4. prop
  5. shop
  1. shoppe
  2. slop
  3. sop
  4. stop
  5. swap
  1. top
  2. wop

reverse dictionary (36)

Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. poll
  2. loppy
  3. obtruncate
  4. lap-eared
  5. lapsided
  6. loppe
  7. lop
  1. dodd
  2. defalk
  3. detruncate
  4. head
  5. trash
  6. trunk
  7. shrag
  1. lop-eared
  2. coll
  3. dod
  4. eared
  5. Tarim He
  6. amputate
  7. shroud
  1. stow
  2. shride
  3. pollard
  4. proin
  5. prune
  6. shred
  7. shrood
  1. shrub
  2. snathe
  3. sned
  4. stump
  5. trim
  6. truncate
  7. Snead
  1. twist

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