lop

Verb

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)

1. (transitive, usually) 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.
   • Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,
     In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,
     Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I

   Synonyms:

   snead

2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
3. To allow to hang down.
   • to lop the head

Noun (1)

lop (plural lops)

1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
   • Why, we take,
     From every tree, lop, bark, and part o'the timber1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio)...
   • I ſhall not trouble you about the raiſing of them of Truncheons or Lops, because I could never find them to take; only ſometimes ſome of the ſmallest Suckers, when the Sap is newly ſtirring in them, if they are ſlipt off from the Tree, will grow1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], →OCLC

Noun (2)

lop (plural lops)

1. (Geordie) A flea.
   • Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.
   • Lice, That's nick name to the stuff called Lops1651, John Cleveland, “The Hue and Cry after Sir John Presbiter”, in Poems

Noun (3)

lop (plural lops)

1. (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
   • "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."1935, Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, page 5
2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

Proper noun capitalized: Lop

IPA/loʊp/

Lop

1. A county of Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • The Khotan rug factory, Hotan Rayonluk Gilam Karahanisi, is situated outside the town of Khotan, in Lop county four kilometers east on the bank of the Yurunkash River.1979, Jan Myrdal, translated by Ann Henning, Carpets from China, Xinjiang & Tibet, Pantheon Books, →ISBN, →LCCN, →OCLC, →OL, page 139
   • Farther west was the ancient State of Jingjue, while the ruins of the city of Akispil, discovered in the desert northwest of Lop County, was one of the cities of the ancient State of Yutian.1989, 郑平 [Zheng Ping], 洛安吉 [Luo Anji], transl., 新疆风物志 [Xinjiang : the Land and the People], Beijing: New World Press, →ISBN, →OCLC, page 62
2. A town in Lop, Hotan prefecture, Xinjiang autonomous region, China.
   • The attacks in Hotan (in Chinese, Hetian) prefecture’s Lop (Luopu) county, occurred at 9 p.m. on Monday and 8:15 a.m. on tuesday, killing three suicide attackers and three police officers and wounding four other policemen, said Osman Toxtixelil, the police chief of the Konabazar (Old Town) police...2015 May 13, Roseanne Gerin, Shohret Hoshur, “Six Dead, Four Injured in Two Successive Suicide Attacks in China’s Xinjiang”, in Shohret Hoshur, transl., Radio Free Asia, archived from the original on...

   Synonyms:

   Lo-p'u, Lohpu