lolloping

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English[edit]

Verb[edit]

lolloping

  1. present participle and gerund of lollop
    • 2011 September 24, Ben Dirs, “Rugby World Cup 2011: England 67-3 Romania”, in BBC Sport[1]:
      Croft touched down a few minutes later after a gaping hole opened up down Romania's left flank before Ashton completed his hat-trick following a lolloping run from Haskell.

Noun[edit]

lolloping (plural lollopings)

  1. The motion of something that lollops.
    • 2000, Alan Bennett, Writing Home:
      Jane Gibson taught the cast the movements of the various creatures they were representing: the linear shufflings of the hedgehogs, the dozy lollopings of the rabbits, the sinuous dartings of the weasel and so on.