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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lop1

▶verb (lops, lopping, lopped) cut off (a branch or limb) from a tree or body.

■ informal remove (something regarded as unnecessary or burdensome): the new rail link lops an hour off journey times.

▶noun (also lop and top) branches and twigs lopped off trees.

– derivatives
lopper noun.

– origin ME (as n.): of unknown origin.

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
lop2

▶verb (lops, lopping, lopped) N. Amer. or archaic

1 hang loosely or limply.

2 lope.

– origin C16: prob. symbolic of limpness; cf. lob.

'lop' also found in these Oxford entries:

amputate - defalcate - head - landrace - lop-eared - lopsided

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Lop (flea)
lop sided
To trim/ to lop/ to prune/ to clip.

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