Meaning

4 senses

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

  2. (Geordie)A flea.

    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

  3. (US, dated, slang)(usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.

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

Examples

3 sentences

  1. I went with lopping most of my hair off.

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  2. I've been lopping trees all afternoon and shredding them into mulch for the garden.

    ruЯ весь день обрезал деревья и мульчировал их для сада.

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  3. Why did van Gogh lop his ear off?

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Origin

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

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

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”).

Back-formation from lopsided.

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Forms

plural: lops
Singularlop
Plurallops

regular

Word family

3 related words
Relateddefalcatelobsterlob

See also

neighbours in the dictionary
loosenlootlooterlopsidedloquatlord
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