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collop

Syllables: col·lop/ˈkɒləp/

collop noun: a slice of meat.

Noun

collop (plural collops)

  1. (Northern England) A slice of meat.
    • "It was till lately believed by the ploughmen of Clydesdale, that if they repeated the rhyme
      Fairy, fairy, bake me a bannock and roast me a collop,
      And I'll gie ye a spurtle off my gadend!
      three several times on turning their cattle at the terminations of ridges, they would find the said fare...1850, Thomas Keightley, The Fairy Mythology, London: H.G. Bohn, page 353
  2. (obsolete) A slice of bacon, a rasher.
  3. A roll or fold of flesh on the body.
  4. A small piece, portion, or slice of something.

Verb

collop (third-person singular simple present collops, present participle colloping, simple past and past participle colloped)

  1. To cut into collops (thin slices)
    • This induced me to make a further trial, and to get some of them colloped as we do oysters in shells, I swallowed them up myself.1773, Philosophical Transactions, Giving Some Account of the Present Undertakings, Studies and Labours of the Ingenious in many Considerable Parts of the World, page 385
    • They colloped it, and spitted skilfully, Then roasted carefully and slipped them off.1874, Homer (J.B. Rose, translator), Homer's Iliad. Translated [into English Blank Verse] by J. B. Rose, page 433

collop meaning in Tamil

collop in Tamil

மீச்சதை மடிப்பு, இறைச்சித்துண்டு, வயிற்றுத்தொந்தி

Forms of collop

Noun
pluralcollops
Verb
third-person singular presentcollops
present participlecolloping
past participlecolloped
pastcolloped

Origin of collop

Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from Swedish kalops (“stewed meat”), from Old Swedish kollops (“slices of beef stew”). Cognate to German Klops (“dish of meat made tender by beating”).

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Phrases with collop

Words that rhyme with collop

Questions about collop

What does collop mean?
Collop means a slice of meat.
What is collop in Tamil?
Collop in Tamil is மீச்சதை மடிப்பு, இறைச்சித்துண்டு, வயிற்றுத்தொந்தி. See Collop meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is collop?
Collop can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce collop?
Collop is pronounced /ˈkɒləp/ (UK).
What is the plural of collop?
The plural of collop is collops.

Words near collop in the dictionary

  1. Collonges-au-Mont-d'Or
  2. collongite
  3. colloniid
  4. colloniids
  5. Collooney
  6. collop
  7. Collop Monday
  8. Collop Mondays
  9. colloped
  10. collophanite
  11. collophore

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: collop (page history and authors); collop (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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