Definition of lop
: material cut away from a tree;
especially
: parts discarded in lumbering
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Recent Examples of lop from the Web
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Lopez was batting only because Counsell needed more innings out of him in a lop-sided game to save the rest of the bullpen.
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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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The two top statewide races on the ballot this year — for governor and US Senate — continue to be lop-sided in favor of the incumbents, the poll found.
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The same could be said for the privacy and advertising scandals that have lopped billions off the market cap of Facebook and other social media companies.
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One of the locals, loping along in the heat, was a small, brownish animal, with pointy ears and long legs made for running.
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Bob and Deborah Marks watched as contractors lopped branches off an enormous oak that had fallen on their home.
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Mears began lopping off a second per lap, 1.5 seconds on a couple of laps, as Johncock’s handling left him again.
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Probably more than 50 percent of the costs listed in this story can be lopped off.
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There's something to be said for bringing this market out of the shadows and lopping off a healthy portion of it for, say, schools and health care.
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Investigators say the victim was beaten and had a finger lopped off.
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First Known Use of lop
1519
Recent Examples of lop from the Web
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Probably more than 50 percent of the costs listed in this story can be lopped off.
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One of the locals, loping along in the heat, was a small, brownish animal, with pointy ears and long legs made for running.
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Much like Miley Cyrus, who notoriously lopped of all her hair, got playful with her own peroxide pixie, then opted to embrace longer hair again, Hudson is proving to be a hair chameleon at all lengths.
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Bob and Deborah Marks watched as contractors lopped branches off an enormous oak that had fallen on their home.
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Even the recent memorable Met Gala moments involving men were hardly ever clothing-related—think Diddy lying down in the middle of the staircase, or Jaden Smith carrying his own lopped-off hair.
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Boys sent out for milk might end up with their heads lopped off by drunken Cossacks sweeping through town.
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Mears began lopping off a second per lap, 1.5 seconds on a couple of laps, as Johncock’s handling left him again.
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There's something to be said for bringing this market out of the shadows and lopping off a healthy portion of it for, say, schools and health care.
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Origin and Etymology of lop
perhaps imitative
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