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Yes. The word lop is a Scrabble US word. The word lop is worth 5 points in Scrabble:

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3 letters words from 'lop'

LOP 5POL 5

2 letters words from 'lop'

LO 2OP 4
PO 4 

All 3 letters words made out of lop

lop olp lpo plo opl pol

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Definitions and meaning of lop

lop

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /lɒp/
  • Rhymes: -ɒp

Etymology 1

From Middle English loppe (“bough”); the verb is a back-formation from the noun.

Verb

lop (third-person singular simple present lops, present participle lopping, simple past and past participle lopped or lopt)

  1. (transitive, usually with off) 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.
    • 1742, Edward Young, The Complaint: or Night-Thoughts on Life, Death & Immortality, Night I
      Some, for hard masters, broken under arms,
      In battle lopt away, with half their limbs,
      Beg bitter bread thro’ realms their valour sav’d,
  2. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  3. To allow to hang down.
    to lop the head
Synonyms
  • (to cut off): snead
Derived terms
  • lopper, loppers
Translations

Noun

lop (plural lops)

  1. That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
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See also

  • defalcate

References

  • “lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2020.

Etymology 2

From Middle English loppe (“flea, spider”), from Old English loppe (“spider, silk-worm, flea”), from Proto-Germanic *luppǭ (“flea, sandflea", originally, "jumper”), from Proto-Germanic *luppijaną (“to jump, dart”). Cognate with Danish loppe (“flea”), Swedish loppa (“flea”). Compare also Middle High German lüpfen, lupfen (“to raise”, obsolete also “to rise”).

Noun

lop (plural lops)

  1. (Tyneside) A flea.
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    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops.

References

  • The New Geordie Dictionary, Frank Graham, 1987, →ISBN
  • A Dictionary of North East Dialect, Bill Griffiths, 2005, Northumbria University Press, →ISBN
  • lop in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
  • “lop” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary, 2001–2020.
  • Newcastle 1970s, Scott Dobson and Dick Irwin, [1]
  • Northumberland Words, English Dialect Society, R. Oliver Heslop, 1893–4
  • A List of words and phrases in everyday use by the natives of Hetton-le-Hole in the County of Durham, F.M.T.Palgrave, English Dialect Society vol.74, 1896, [2]
  • Todd's Geordie Words and Phrases, George Todd, Newcastle, 1977[3]

Etymology 3

Back-formation from lopsided.

Noun

lop (plural lops)

  1. (US, dated, slang) (usually offensive) A disabled person, a cripple.
    • 1935: Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men, p5
      "He's a lop; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
  2. Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

See also

  • lob

Anagrams

  • LPO, PLO, POL, Pol., pol

A-Pucikwar

Etymology

From Proto-Great Andamanese *lap

Verb

lop

  1. to count

References

  • Juliette Blevins, Linguistic clues to Andamanese pre-history: Understanding the North-South divide, pg. 21 (2009)

Franco-Provençal

Etymology

Probably influenced by French loup, from Latin lupus. Doublet of naturally inherited luef.

Noun

lop m (plural lops)

  1. wolf

Hungarian

Etymology

Of unknown origin. First attested around 1519. Another possible citing as a proper noun in 1086 is also mentioned.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ ˈlop]
  • Rhymes: -op

Verb

lop

  1. (transitive) to steal, to shoplift (from someone -tól/-től)

Conjugation

Derived terms

(With verbal prefixes):

Descendants

References

Further reading

  • lop in Bárczi, Géza and László Országh: A magyar nyelv értelmező szótára (’The Explanatory Dictionary of the Hungarian Language’). Budapest: Akadémiai Kiadó, 1959–1962.

Middle English

Noun

lop

  1. Alternative form of loppe (“spider”)

Occitan

Etymology

From Old Occitan lop, from Latin lupus.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): [ˈlup]

Noun

lop m (plural lops, feminine loba, feminine plural lobas)

  1. wolf

Derived terms

Veps

Etymology

From Proto-Finnic *loppu.

Noun

lop

  1. end

Volapük

Noun

lop (nominative plural lops)

  1. opera

Declension

Derived terms

  • lopöp
  • lopül

Source: wiktionary.org
  • to cut the tops off branches.
    (source: Collins Scrabble Dictionary)
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