Definition of lop
: material cut away from a tree; especially : parts discarded in lumbering
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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
lop
Definition of lop
lopped
;lopping
transitive verb
1a (1) : to cut off branches or twigs from (2) : to sever from a woody plantb (1) archaic : to cut off the head or limbs of (2) : to cut from a person
2a : to remove superfluous parts fromb : to eliminate as unnecessary or undesirable —usually used with off
Recent Examples of lop from the Web
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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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On Friday, Apple lost 4%, lopping more than $30 billion off its market cap.
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Adam Boutin, her partner of 23 years and a fellow fisherman, loped easily over the rocks and got to the net first.
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Bringing the handles of lopping shears toward each other basically requires performing a chest fly.
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That bear was seen loping from Waxhaw toward Monroe.
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The Nike Oregon Project's Sifan Hassan lops 15 seconds off of the Dutch 5,000 record.
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First Known Use of lop
1519
Recent Examples of lop from the Web
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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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On Friday, Apple lost 4%, lopping more than $30 billion off its market cap.
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Adam Boutin, her partner of 23 years and a fellow fisherman, loped easily over the rocks and got to the net first.
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Bringing the handles of lopping shears toward each other basically requires performing a chest fly.
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That bear was seen loping from Waxhaw toward Monroe.
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The Nike Oregon Project's Sifan Hassan lops 15 seconds off of the Dutch 5,000 record.
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
perhaps imitative
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