lop

See also: løp, löp, lốp, and lớp

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /lɒp/
• Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

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

Verb

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

Synonyms

• (to cut off): snead

Derived terms

• lopper, loppers

Translations

cut off

• Czech: osekat pf
• Galician: fanar, demoucar, decotar, podar, moucar
• Greek: κλαδεύω (el) (kladévo)
• Hungarian: levág (hu), lenyes (hu), lecsíp, levesz (hu)
• Ido: rekortar (io)

• Irish: meang
• Maori: pōuto
• Russian: обруба́ть (ru) n (obrubátʹ)
• Spanish: podar (es), cortar (es), mochar (es)
• Swedish: kvista (sv), avkvista

Noun

lop (plural lops)

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

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See also

• defalcate

References

• “lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.

Etymology 2

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

lop (plural lops)

1. (Geordie) A flea.

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   Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

References

• The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
• A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
• lop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• “lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2019.
• Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
• Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
• A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
• Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

Etymology 3

Back-formation from lopsided.

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. (US, dated, 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.

See also

• lob

Anagrams

• LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol

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Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Probably influenced by French loup, from Latin lupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.

Noun

lop m (plural lops)

1. wolf

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Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlop]

Verb

lop

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

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

Conjugation

conjugation of lop

Infinitive			lopni
Past participle			lopott
Present participle			lopó
Future participle			lopandó
Adverbial participle			lopva
Potential			lophat
			1st person sg	2nd person sg informal	3rd person sg, 2nd person sg formal	1st person pl	2nd person pl informal	3rd person pl, 2nd person pl formal
Indicative mood	Present	Indefinite	lopok	lopsz	lop	lopunk	loptok	lopnak
		Definite	lopom én téged/titeket loplak	lopod	lopja	lopjuk	lopjátok	lopják
	Past	Indefinite	loptam	loptál	lopott	loptunk	loptatok	loptak
		Definite	loptam én téged/titeket loptalak	loptad	lopta	loptuk	loptátok	lopták
Conditional mood	Present	Indefinite	lopnék	lopnál	lopna	lopnánk	lopnátok	lopnának
		Definite	lopnám én téged/titeket lopnálak	lopnád	lopná	lopnánk	lopnátok	lopnák
Subjunctive mood	Present	Indefinite	lopjak	lopj or lopjál	lopjon	lopjunk	lopjatok	lopjanak
		Definite	lopjam én téged/titeket lopjalak	lopd or lopjad	lopja	lopjuk	lopjátok	lopják
Conjugated infinitive			lopnom	lopnod	lopnia	lopnunk	lopnotok	lopniuk

Derived terms

• lopakodik
• lopás
• lopdos
• lopkod
• lopódzik
• naplopó

(With verbal prefixes):

• belop
• ellop
• kilop
• lelop
• meglop
• összelop
• visszalop

Descendants

• Serbo-Croatian: lopov

• Slovene: lópov

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Middle English

Noun

lop

1. Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

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Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): [ˈlup]

Noun

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

1. wolf

Derived terms

• penche de lop

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Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

Noun

lop

1. end

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Volapük

Noun

lop (plural lops)

1. opera

Declension

declension of lop

	singular	plural
nominative	lop	lops
genitive	lopa	lopas
dative	lope	lopes
accusative	lopi	lopis
vocative 1	o lop!	o lops!
predicative 2	lopu	lopus

• ¹ status as a case is disputed
• ² in some later, non-classical Volapük only

Derived terms

• lopöp
• lopül