- lop⇄adj. hanging loosely; drooping.
- lop⇄lop (1), verb, lopped,lopping,noun.
- lop⇄lop (2), verb, lopped,lopping,adjective.
- lop⇄noun 1. the smaller branches and twigs of trees.
2. a part or parts lopped off. - lop⇄v.i. 1. to hang loosely or limply; droop.
Ex. The sleeping man's hand lopped over the arm of the chair.
2. to flop.
Ex. She ... cried about it, she did, and lopped round, as if she'd lost every friend she had (Harriet Beecher Stowe). - lop⇄v.t. to let hang or droop.
- lop⇄v.t. 1. to cut off; cut.
Ex. to lop the dead branches from a tree, to lop off the legs of a table.
2. to cut branches, twigs, or stems from; trim.
3. to remove parts as if by cutting.
Ex. ... they had lopped off the sentimentali