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1. Cut off from a whole
   "The soul lopped from the body"
   - discerp, sever
    
2. Cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of
   "lop the plants in the garden"
   - snip, clip, crop, trim, dress, prune, cut back

Derived forms: lops, lopping, lopped

See also: lopper

Type of: cut, thin out

Encyclopedia: Lop