lop

• IPA^(key): /lɒp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp

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

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)

1. (transitive, usually with off) 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.
   • 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I

     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. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3. To allow to hang down.

   to lop the head

• (to cut off): snead

• lopper, loppers

lop (plural lops)

1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

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• defalcate

• “lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

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”).

lop (plural lops)

1. (Geordie) A flea.

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   Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• lop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• “lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin,
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896,
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977

Back-formation from lopsided.

lop (plural lops)

1. (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
   • 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5

     "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."

2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

• lob

• LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol

Probably influenced by French loup, from Latin lupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.

lop m (plural lops)

1. wolf

Of unknown origin.[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈlop]

lop

1. (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)

   Másoktól lop ötleteket. ― He/she steals ideas from others.

• lopakodik
• lopás
• lopdos
• lopkod
• lopódzik
• naplopó

(With verbal prefixes):

lop

1. Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlup]

lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

1. wolf

• penche de lop

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

lop

1. end

lop (plural lops)

1. opera

• lopöp
• lopül