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lop.

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 characters1 syllables approx.English language

Meaning & usage

verb/lɒp/Canada, Northern-England, Received-Pronunciation, Wales/lɔp/Australia, British, Scotland, Southern, Standard/lɑp/General-American/lɒp/New-Zealand
  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
  2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.

  3. To allow to hang down.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

noun/lɒp/Canada, Northern-England, Received-Pronunciation, Wales/lɔp/Australia, British, Scotland, Southern, Standard/lɑp/General-American/lɒp/New-Zealand
  1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

Where this word comes from

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

noun/lɒp/Canada, Northern-England, Received-Pronunciation, Wales/lɔp/Australia, British, Scotland, Southern, Standard/lɑp/General-American/lɒp/New-Zealand
  1. A flea.

    Geordie
    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
Where this word comes from

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”).

noun/lɒp/Canada, Northern-England, Received-Pronunciation, Wales/lɔp/Australia, British, Scotland, Southern, Standard/lɑp/General-American/lɒp/New-Zealand
  1. (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.

    US · dated · slang
  2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

Where this word comes from

Back-formation from lopsided.

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