What does "lop" mean?
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
Lop
/lɒp/ name, noun, verb, slang
name, noun, verb, slang ·Common ·High school level
Meaning at a glance
- Primary sense: That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
- Grammar: lop is listed as name, noun, verb, slang.
- Nearest alternatives: abscind, amputate, annihilate, bag.
- Useful contrasts: enlarge, expand, growth.
- Usage evidence: Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
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Definitions
Noun
- 1 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"
- 2 A flea. Geordie
"Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops."
- 3 (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple. US, dated, slang
""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.""
- 4 Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
Verb
- 1 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. transitive, usually
"Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,"
- 2 cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of wordnet
- 3 To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- 4 cut off from a whole wordnet
- 5 To allow to hang down.
"to lop the head"
Proper Noun
- 1 A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
"The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River."
- 2 A town in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
"The attacks in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Lop (Luopu) county, occurred at 9 p.m. on Monday and 8:15 a.m. on tuesday, killing three suicide attackers and three police officers and wounding four other policemen, said Osman Toxtixelil, the police chief of the Konabazar (Old Town) police station in Lop town. No bystanders were killed or injured in the attacks, he told RFA’s Uyghur Service."
Example
"Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,"
Common questions
What is a synonym for "lop"?
Common synonyms include: abscind, amputate, annihilate, bag, bagging, baggy.
How do you use "lop" in a sentence?
Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
How do you pronounce "lop"?
Pronounced /lɒp/.
Etymology
Etymology 1
From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
Etymology 2
From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).
Etymology 3
Back-formation from lopsided.
Etymology 4
Borrowed from Uyghur لوپ (lop).