lop

Other forms of lop

past tense or participle

lopped

present participle

lopping

third person

lops·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about lop

What does lop mean?

lop means "cut off from a whole". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in lop?

lop has 1 syllable: lop. In IPA it is /ˈlɑp/.

What is another word for lop?

Close synonyms include discerp, sever, snip, clip, crop. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is lop a common word?

lop is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.