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lop¹

  • /lɒp/ Canada, Northern England, UK
  • /lɔp/ Australia, British, Scotland
  • /lɑp/ US
  • /lɒp/ New Zealand
  • [lɔ̟p] ~ [lɞ̠p] New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

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

verb lops · lopping · lopped · lopt

  1. transitive, usually, with off To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything, especially to prune a small limb off a shrub or tree, or sometimes to behead someone. Some, for hard masters, broken under arms, In battle lopt away, with half their limbs, Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,

    Similar: snead

  2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  3. To allow to hang down. to lop the head

noun lops

  1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree. Why, we take, From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber

lop²

  • /lɒp/ Canada, Northern England, UK
  • /lɔp/ Australia, British, Scotland
  • /lɑp/ US
  • /lɒp/ New Zealand
  • [lɔ̟p] ~ [lɞ̠p] New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

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”).

noun lops

  1. Geordie A flea. Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

lop³

  • /lɒp/ Canada, Northern England, UK
  • /lɔp/ Australia, British, Scotland
  • /lɑp/ US
  • /lɒp/ New Zealand
  • [lɔ̟p] ~ [lɞ̠p] New Zealand

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

Back-formation from lopsided.

noun lops

  1. US, dated, slang (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple. "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
  2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

Lop⁴

  • /loʊp/

Sounds like lope · Rhymes with -əʊp

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Uyghur لوپ (lop).

proper noun Lob

  1. A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China. The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.
  2. A town in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China. The attacks in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Lop (Luopu) county, occurred at 9 p.m. on Monday and 8:15 a.m. on tuesday, killing three suicide attackers and three police officers and wounding four other policemen, said Osman Toxtixelil, the police chief of the Konabazar (Old Town) police st

    Similar: Lo-p'u, Lohpu

Similar: Luopu

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proper noun

Similar: Luopu

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verb cut off

Españolpodar, cortar, mochar
Portuguêspodar, cortar
Ελληνικάκλαδεύω kladévo
Русскийобруба́ть obrubátʹ
العربيةقَلَّمَ qallama

name county in Hotan, Xinjiang, China; a town in Lop, Hotan, Xinjiang, China

中文洛浦 Luòpǔ

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@misc{lop_2026,
  title = {lop},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/lop},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}