Definitions for lops

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IPA: /lɒp/

Lops is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 5 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 31 anagrams from letters in lops (lops).

Definitions for lops

noun

1. parts or a part lopped off.
2. (of trees) the smaller branches and twigs not useful as timber.

adjective

1. hanging down limply or droopingly:

verb (used with object)

1. to cut off (branches, twigs, etc.) from a tree or other plant.
2. to cut off (a limb, part, or the like) from a person, animal, etc.
3. to cut off the branches, twigs, etc., of (a tree or other plant).
4. to eliminate as unnecessary or excessive:
5. Archaic. to cut off the head, limbs, etc., of (a person).
6. to let hang or droop:

verb (used without object)

1. to cut off branches, twigs, etc., as of a tree.
2. to remove parts by or as by cutting.
3. to hang loosely or limply; droop.
4. to sway, move, or go in a drooping or heavy, awkward way.
5. to move in short, quick leaps:

Origin of lops

1375-1425; late Middle English loppe part or parts cut off; perhaps akin to Old English loppe spider (see lop², lobster

Examples for lops

Meanwhile, mortgage modifications and foreclosures continue to lop off mortgage debt.

He was dubbed Jack the lop Ear and has become somewhat of a local celebrity.

Let him spread as farre as he list without his maister-bough or lop equally.

lop off the endnotes and bibliography, and The Measure of Manhattan is barely 300 pages.

Don't move about or turn your head or lop around or move your hands or feet.

I'll just lop off a little limb on one side, and see the effect.

Two young men who are friends do not lop on each other, and kiss and gush.

To lop away the half of a pine is only to see how beautiful the other half is.

He's got a bent-in nose, an' a lop ear, an' a jaw like a hippo.

When they had been chosen, David had to shinny up them to lop off their branches.