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collops

collops is the plural of collop.

collops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of collop.

Meaning of collop

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.

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Phrases with collops

Questions about collops

What is collops the plural of?
Collops is the plural of collop.

Words near collops in the dictionary

  1. collophore
  2. collophores
  3. colloping
  4. collopping
  5. colloppings
  6. collops
  7. Collopy
  8. Collopys
  9. colloq
  10. colloq.
  11. colloqs

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