Lop

Pronunciation

• IPA: /lÉ’p/
• Rhymes: -É’p

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"), Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen ("to release and raise aloft, move quickly").

Full definition of lop

Noun

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

From Middle English loppe.

Verb

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

Noun

1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.

from lopsided.

Noun

1. (US, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
• 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5"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.

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