lop
/lɒp/ · verb
Meaning
- 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.
- To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- To allow to hang down.
- That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
- A flea.
- (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
- Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
- A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
- A town in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
Etymology / origin
From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.
- loppe(Middle English)→
- lop (English)
- Relations: inh
Related words
Descendant words
- lüpfen(German) (cog)
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