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How to use lop in a sentence

15 example sentences · verb, noun

Lop means 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. Example: “Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.”

Examples of lop by meaning

verbTo allow to hang down.

  • to lop the head

nounA flea.

  • Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

noun(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

More sentences with lop

  • If a man accidentally kills another by lopping a tree, it is not voluntary manslaughter.From the entry voluntary
  • Remember the eastern leg of HS2 being lopped back to the East Midlands?2024 February 7, Andrew McNaughton, “HS2: a truncated route cuts off city lifelines”, in RAIL, number 1002, page 47. From the entry synergy
  • TPE's Manchester Airport-Newcastle has both ends lopped off to become Manchester Victoria-York.2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 52. From the entry lop off
  • Fungi break down the wood inwards from lopping wounds, causing white or brown rot.1995, L Wessoly, Fracture diagnosis of trees. From the entry falseheart
  • Smaller-town indies are lopping off early-week skeds with winter among us.1989, The Film Journal, volume 92, numbers 1-6. From the entry sked
  • Experts with saws and ladders came and lopped off the lower branches.1944, Emily Carr, “Life Loves Living”, in The House of All Sorts. From the entry umbrella
  • Celtic tattoos probably look great on some woad-covered warrior, running broadsworded-up to lop the head off some Roman.2004, David Quantick, Grumpy Old Men: A Manual for the British Malcontent, London: HarperCollinsEntertainment, →ISBN, page 138. From the entry broadsworded
  • Lop Nor had disappeared, and Lou-Ian was buried in sand.1979, Yasushi Inoue, translated by James T. Araki and Edward Seidensticker, Lou-lan and Other Stories, Kodansha International, page 40. From the entry Charkhlik
  • Trees when lopped were dodded and became doddards.1955, Ivor Brown, Chosen Words, London: Jonathan Cape, […], page 179. From the entry doddard
  • The power company had lopped off the tops of the trees along the road, and they stood betopped, blunted, like a child's drawing of trees.2012, John Colman Wood, The Names of Things. From the entry betop
  • Penélopê formally extends her personal hospitality to the stranger, thereby creating that special relationship of guestfriendship which involves each party in making the other's interests his or her own.1993, Ralph J. Hexter, Robert Fitzgerald, A guide to the Odyssey. From the entry guestfriendship
  • As well as coppicing, other trees were pollarded, or lopped about 6 ft up the trunk so that the resulting growth was beyond the reach of grazing animals.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118. From the entry pollard

Meaning of lop

  1. verb 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. verb To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  3. verb To allow to hang down.

Full definition of lop

Questions about lop in a sentence

How do you use lop in a sentence?
Lop is used as a verb and noun. For example: “Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.”
What is a short sentence with lop?
“to lop the head”
What does lop mean?
Lop means 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.

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Adapted from Wiktionary: lop (page history and authors) and the entries each sentence comes from. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws chose the sentences, left out offensive ones and quotations older than 1900, and marked the word in each. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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