lop

[US]/lɒp/
[UK]/lɑp/
Frequency: Very High

Translation

vt. chop down; cut off branches
vi. chop, cut; loiter
n. cut-off branches
adj. hanging down
Word Forms
Present Participlelopping
Third Person Singularlops
Plurallops
Past Participlelopped
Past Tenselopped

Phrases & Collocations

lop off

lop down

Example Sentences

a dark pig with lop-ears.

it lops an hour off journey times.

the dog was loping along by his side.

Your stride length is enormous, and it gives you this animalistic, loping gait, since you're always on your tiptoes.

Colloform, frambo idal textures and laminated, brecciated structures of exhalation are widely deve loped in the stratiform ores.

Real-world Examples

Also the neo-Assyrians loved to find would-be rebels and lop off their appendages.

Source: World History Crash Course

So for example, lopping off a tail is pretty significant damage, but it won't kill the whale.

Source: Science 60 Seconds - Scientific American May 2023 Collection

Digital in name only, the new banknotes lop six zeros off a currency ravaged by years of hyperinflation.

Source: The Economist (Summary)

Until that moment arrives, half the long tail is lopped off.

Source: Economist Business

Again, lopping off your leg, to clip a toenail.

Source: Chubbyemu

Killer lopped off his ear and set him on fire.

Source: Hannibal

Three rabbit mothers hopped about with lopping ears and watched their little rabbits playing, too.

Source: The little cabin on the grassland.

That is, he lopped logs and searched for lodestone in the forest.

Source: Pan Pan

It's a shame we're gonna have to lop their heads off.

Source: Mad Men Season 1

And for the jalapenos, I'm just gonna lop off the stem and then cut them in half.

Source: Kitchen Deliciousness Competition

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