Definition of lop
: material cut away from a tree;
especially
: parts discarded in lumbering
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Ohio State will peak, and see the team that handed the Buckeyes their most lop-sided loss of the season.
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Penny, a 2 1/2-year-old French lop, loved every minute of it and happily relaxed while receiving her makeover.
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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
Middle English loppe
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First Known Use: 14th century
in the meaning defined above
See Words from the same yearDefinition of lop
lopped;
lopping
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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Simply lopping Wynn’s name off the casino won’t make the company’s deplorable treatment of its employees go away.
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Lawmakers lopped off 65,000 GOP voters and packed 30,000 Democrats into the 6th district, which helped Democrat John Delaney in 2012 defeat 10-term GOP Rep. Roscoe Bartlett by 21 points.
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Facebook shares have dropped some 9 percent, lopping more than $50 billion off the company's market value, since the revelations were first published, raising questions about whether social media sites are violating users' privacy.
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Cooper vetoed the bill to lop three seats off of the appeals court shortly before Doug McCullough, a former judge on the appeals court, reached the mandatory retirement age.
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Rabobank, a Dutch lender, calculates that even a soft Brexit could lop 3% off GDP by 2030.
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Since then, one neighbor said, it's knocked cyclists off their bikes, lopped at least one tire off a car and prompted drivers to swing around it, knocking off side-view mirrors of those who park nearby.
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The 47-year-old homeless man’s hands had been lopped off.
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The boundaries in the new district map appear to benefit Lamb, who lives in Mount Lebanon, a Democratic enclave that will get lopped off of the existing district and attached to different area.
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First Known Use of lop
1519
Recent Examples of lop from the Web
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The drop to $248 a share in early trading extended a selloff that has lopped off 36% from the stock since its peak in September.
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Cooper vetoed the bill to lop three seats off of the appeals court shortly before Doug McCullough, a former judge on the appeals court, reached the mandatory retirement age.
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Rabobank, a Dutch lender, calculates that even a soft Brexit could lop 3% off GDP by 2030.
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The Dodgers spent a record $270 million in 2015, but have lopped nearly $100 million off their major league commitments.
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Lawmakers lopped off 65,000 GOP voters and packed 30,000 Democrats into the 6th district, which helped Democrat John Delaney in 2012 defeat 10-term GOP Rep. Roscoe Bartlett by 21 points.
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Facebook shares have dropped some 9 percent, lopping more than $50 billion off the company's market value, since the revelations were first published, raising questions about whether social media sites are violating users' privacy.
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Since then, one neighbor said, it's knocked cyclists off their bikes, lopped at least one tire off a car and prompted drivers to swing around it, knocking off side-view mirrors of those who park nearby.
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The 47-year-old homeless man’s hands had been lopped off.
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Origin and Etymology of lop
perhaps imitative
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