lop
/lɑp/ verb C2- 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.
- To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
- To allow to hang down. · to lop the head
He/she/it lops · Past lopped · Past participle lopped · -ing form lopping
Verb forms
- Base form
- lop
- He/she/it
- lops
- Past
- lopped
- Past participle
- lopped
- -ing form
- lopping
From the library
When we descended I followed Holmes into the stable yard, where he opened the door of a loose-box and led out a squat, lop-eared, white-and-tan dog, something between a beagle and a foxhound.
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