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Meanings of lop in English

Portuguese
podar
Catalan
esporgar
Spanish
podar

Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of.

podar
Portuguese
podar
Catalan
esporgar
Spanish
podar

Cut off from a whole.

podar
Usage of lop in English
1
Eni said Saipem's warning would lop 200 million euros off its earnings.
Reuters
2
The lop-eared cub drew out of the race at the same time.
Northern Trails, Book I.
3
It was just the rain, though, blown inside past the lop-sided shutters.
Empire in black and gold
4
But surely the maddest men of all are the lop-sided man-bag martyrs.
The Guardian
5
One more weary effort getting nearly electrocuted to lop down the bristles.
A singular man
6
What a lop-sided thing a civilised sense of values seemed to be!
The Splendid Folly
7
If you lop its head off, surely it won't grow another one.
Taken by sin
8
His stump was roughly tied off; a demon supported his lop-sided body.
Complete Books of Blood
9
In line 22 the average measurements of seven large lop-eared rabbits are given.
The Variation of Animals and Plants under Domestication — Volume...
10
Of course it would have been a little lop-sided if they weren't involved.
The Irish Times
11
Their opportunities mostly came through Cyrus Christie's mistakes and our lop-sided team shape.
The Irish Times
12
Or worse, it's become an increasingly lop-sided competition where only the strong survive.
The Irish Times
13
They had many classic matches; this lop-sided four-setter was not one of them.
The Guardian
14
She'll be sure to lop off fifteen or twenty pounds in the telling.
Her Weight in Gold
15
In the end, the race had a lop-sided feel to it.
The Guardian
16
Here was another horribly lop-sided contest not involving an associate side.
The Guardian
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Translations for lop
Spanish
podar
Lop through the time
Lop across language varieties
United Kingdom
Common
United States of America
Common