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lop

2[lop] verb, lopped, lop⋅ping, adjective
–verb (used without object)
1. to hang loosely or limply; droop.
2. to sway, move, or go in a drooping or heavy, awkward way.
3. to move in short, quick leaps: a rabbit lopping through the garden.
–verb (used with object)
4. to let hang or droop: He lopped his arms at his sides in utter exhaustion.
–adjective
5. hanging down limply or droopingly: lop ears.

Origin:
1570–80; v. use of obs. lop spider or lop dangling part of a tree (see lop 1 ); lit., to behave like a lop, i.e., to dangle, hang loosely. See lob 1
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