lop

Meaning

Verb

1. 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.

Noun

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

Noun

A flea.

Noun

1. (slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

Synonyms

prune

cut

trim

clip

chop

crop

cut off branches

hang down

droop

hew

cut off

sever

slash

cut back

curtail

discerp

amputate

dress

👗

hack

snip

dangle

disfigure

divide

draw away

drive out

edit

eject

eliminate

excise

expunge

extirpate

fell

gather

hang

harvest

hollow out

intercept

kill

🔪🩸👤

lift

loll

mangle

mark

mutilate

obviate

pare

pend

pluck

poll

pollard

preclude

pull

purge

razee

reap

remove

rend

retrench

rid of

rip

ripple

sag

saw

🪚

scratch out

shear

shroud

slit

snap

splinter

stem

strike

strike off

strike out

strip

stump

take

take away

take out

tear

trimmings

weed out

wipe away

wipe off

write off

blank out

lop off

crack

waste

loppings

stop

🛑

faggot-wood

delete

ablate

abolish

abridge

abrogate

bough

branch

break

breathe

call in

clear

cleave

close out

cross off

cross out

crush

cull

cut down

cut out

Pronounced as (IPA)

/lɒp/

Etymology

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