lop off

English

Etymology

See lop.

Verb

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

1. (transitive) 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.
   • 2021 June 30, Philip Haigh, “Regional trains squeezed as ECML congestion heads north”, in RAIL, number 934, page 52:

     TPE's Manchester Airport-Newcastle has both ends lopped off to become Manchester Victoria-York.

Synonyms

• (to cut off): snead

Translations

cut off top or end

• Galician: fanar, demoucar
• Latin: praecīdō
• Spanish: cortar (es), mochar (es), podar (es)
• Swedish: snoppa (sv)

See also

• defalcate