Definition of lop
:material cut away from a tree;
especially
:parts discarded in lumbering
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Chase is a male lop-eared rabbit in need of a home.
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Poundstone, who reveals her personal life as a working single mother of three children as well as the cats, a dog, a bearded dragon lizard, a lop-eared bunny and one ant, sold out her 2013 performance at the Guthrie Theater.
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Alex is especially fond of Marshmallow, 2-year-old Holland lop-eared rabbit.
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Prices: Grilled beef with lop leaf ($6), spring rolls ($6), egg rolls ($6), salt and pepper tofu ($14), vermicelli ($11) and papaya salad ($10) totaled $53, before tax and tip.
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Origin and Etymology of lop
Definition of lop
lopped;
lopping
transitive verb
1 a (1)
:to cut off branches or twigs from
(2)
:to sever from a woody plant
b (1)
archaic
:to cut off the head or limbs of
(2)
:to cut from a person
2 a
:to remove superfluous parts from
b
:to eliminate as unnecessary or undesirable
—usually used with off
Recent Examples of lop from the Web
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Making Joe’s popular Z-Man (brisket, two onion rings and smoked provolone cheese on a bun) requires lopping 2 to 3 ounces of meat off 1,200 briskets per week to ensure the smoke permeates all the way through the meat.
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The Internet is full of totally disgusting—yet strangely entertaining—images of bumps and lumps getting popped and lopped.
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Big Luther came loping into a meeting room at a Birmingham-area public library on Thursday night, panting slightly and apologizing for having kept everybody waiting.
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Hove, who died in 1988, lopped a whopping 22 seconds off the 400-yard freestyle meet record and also won the 200 freestyle.
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Most people just lop off the entire top to remove the tough hull, but that wastes so much precious fruit.
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The stylist went to town, lopping off my long thick hair, razoring the ends into a hostile flippy-endy nightmare.
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Jornet in 2015 lopped 67 seconds off Strabel's mark with his 41:48.
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Cheapo special-effects shots show live rabbits loping around miniature sets, though an actor in a rabbit suit fills in for the attack scenes.
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First Known Use of lop
1519
Recent Examples of lop from the Web
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Making Joe’s popular Z-Man (brisket, two onion rings and smoked provolone cheese on a bun) requires lopping 2 to 3 ounces of meat off 1,200 briskets per week to ensure the smoke permeates all the way through the meat.
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The Internet is full of totally disgusting—yet strangely entertaining—images of bumps and lumps getting popped and lopped.
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Big Luther came loping into a meeting room at a Birmingham-area public library on Thursday night, panting slightly and apologizing for having kept everybody waiting.
-
Hove, who died in 1988, lopped a whopping 22 seconds off the 400-yard freestyle meet record and also won the 200 freestyle.
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Most people just lop off the entire top to remove the tough hull, but that wastes so much precious fruit.
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The stylist went to town, lopping off my long thick hair, razoring the ends into a hostile flippy-endy nightmare.
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Jornet in 2015 lopped 67 seconds off Strabel's mark with his 41:48.
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Cheapo special-effects shots show live rabbits loping around miniature sets, though an actor in a rabbit suit fills in for the attack scenes.
These example sentences are selected automatically from various online news sources to reflect current usage of the word 'lop.' Views expressed in the examples do not represent the opinion of Merriam-Webster or its editors. Send us feedback.
Origin and Etymology of lop
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