lop

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /lɒp/

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• (General American, Canada) IPA^(key): /lɑp/
• (General Australian, New Zealand) IPA^(key): /lɔp/, /lɒp/

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• Rhymes: -ɒp

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

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or 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.
   • 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I:

     Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,
     In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,
     Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,

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

   to lop the head

• (to cut off): snead

lop (plural lops)

1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]:

     Why, we take,
     From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber

   • 1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC:

     I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow

• defalcate

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.

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”).

lop (plural lops)

1. (Geordie) A flea.

   Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

   • 1651, John Cleveland, “The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbiter”, in Poems:

     Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops

• fit as a lop

• lobster

• Frank Graham, editor (1987), “LOP”, in The New Geordie Dictionary, Rothbury, Northumberland: Butler Publishing, →ISBN.
• Bill Griffiths, editor (2004), “lop”, in A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Newcastle upon Tyne, Tyne and Wear: Northumbria University Press, →ISBN.
• “lop”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• Douglas Harper (2001–2025) “lop”, in Online Etymology Dictionary.
• Scott Dobson, Dick Irwin “lop”, in Newcastle 1970s: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[1], archived from the original on 5 September 2024.
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• “Lop”, in Palgrave’s Word List: Durham & Tyneside Dialect Group‎^[2], archived from the original on 5 September 2024, from F[rancis] M[ilnes] T[emple] Palgrave, A List of Words and Phrases in Everyday Use by the Natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham […] (Publications of the English Dialect Society; 74), London: Published for the English Dialect Society by Henry Frowde, Oxford University Press, 1896, →OCLC.
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

Back-formation from lopsided.

lop (plural lops)

1. (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
   • 1935, Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, page 5:

     "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.

• lob
• lop chong

• Pol., POL, PLO, pol, OLP, LPO

From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap.

lop

1. to count

• Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)

• (Myanmar) /lɔp˧/

lop

1. grave

• lop dwang

• Inglis, Douglas, Sampu, Nasaw, Jaseng, Wilai, Jana, Thocha (2005) A preliminary Ngochang–Kachin–English Lexicon‎^[4], Payap University, page 73

• lo (Old Dauphinois)

Inherited from Latin lupus.

lop m (plural lops) (ORB, broad)

1. wolf

• loup in DicoFranPro: Dictionnaire Français/Francoprovençal – on dicofranpro.llm.umontreal.ca
• lop in Lo trèsor Arpitan – on arpitan.eu

• AIS: Sprach- und Sachatlas Italiens und der Südschweiz [Linguistic and Ethnographic Atlas of Italy and Southern Switzerland] – map 434: “il lupo” – on navigais-web.pd.istc.cnr.it
• ALF: Atlas Linguistique de la France^[5] [Linguistic Atlas of France] – map 783: “loup” – on lig-tdcge.imag.fr
• Walther von Wartburg (1928–2002) “lŭpus”, in Französisches Etymologisches Wörterbuch, volume 5: J L, page 457

Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.^[1]

• IPA^(key): [ˈlop]
• Rhymes: -op

lop

1. (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)

   Másoktól lop ötleteket. ― He/she steals ideas from others.

   Synonyms: (slang) csór, lenyúl, meglovasít, megfúj, (literary) oroz, (formal) eltulajdonít, (euphemistic, informal) elemel

   Perfective: ellop

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• lop in Géza Bárczi, László Országh, et al., editors, A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára [The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language] (ÉrtSz.), Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962. Fifth ed., 1992: →ISBN.

From Dutch loop, from Middle Dutch lôop, from Old Dutch *lōp.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlɔp̚]
• Hyphenation: lop

lop

1. barrel (of a firearm)

   Synonym: laras

• “lop” in Kamus Besar Bahasa Indonesia, Jakarta: Agency for Language Development and Cultivation – Ministry of Education, Culture, Research, and Technology of the Republic of Indonesia, 2016.

lop

1. alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

• IPA^(key): [ˈlup]

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lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

1. wolf

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

lop

1. end
2. (often in the plural) the rest
3. (grammar) ending

lop (nominative plural lops)

1. opera

• lopöp
• lopül