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lollops

lollops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lollop.

Meaning of lollop

Verb

lollop (third-person singular simple present lollops, present participle lolloping, simple past and past participle lolloped)

  1. To walk or move with a bouncing or undulating motion and at an unhurried pace.
    • Every available spyglass was directed towards this strange sail. It appeared, as we all watched it, to lollop up and down, as it were, with the jerk of the sea, according to no regular motion of a ship or boat.1861, “Chinese Slaves Adrift”, in All the Year Round: A Weekly Journal, volume 5, page 251
  2. (obsolete) To act lazily, loll, lie around.
    • “Here’s fine discipline on-board, when such lazy, skulking sons of bitches as you are allowed, on pretence of sickness, to lollop at your ease, while your betters are kept to hard duty!”1748, Tobias Smollett, chapter 34, in The Adventures of Roderick Random

Questions about lollops

What is lollops the third-person singular simple present indicative of?
Lollops is the third-person singular simple present indicative of lollop.

Words near lollops in the dictionary

  1. lolloped
  2. lolloper
  3. lollopers
  4. lolloping
  5. lollopings
  6. lollops
  7. lollopy
  8. lollpoop
  9. lollpoops
  10. lolls
  11. lolls about

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