lop

lop is a 3-letter English word with 9 senses as noun, transitive verb, intransitive verb, adjective, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: A flea. Face value is 5 in Scrabble and 7 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

3 letters · Scrabble 5 · Words With Friends 7 · 9 senses

Definitions

1. noun. A flea.
2. transitive verb. To cut off as the top or extreme part of anything; to sho/ -- by cutting off the extremities; to cut off, or remove as superfluous parts; as, to lop a tree or its branches.
3. transitive verb. To cut partly off and bend down; as, to lop bushes in a hedge.
4. noun. That which is lopped from anything, as branches from a tree.
5. intransitive verb. To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
6. transitive verb. To let hang down; as, to lop the head.
7. adjective. Hanging down; as, lop ears; -- used also in compound adjectives; as, lopeared; lopsided.
8. verb. cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

   "dress the plants in the garden"

   Synonyms: clip, crop, dress, prune, snip, trim

9. verb. cut off from a whole

   "His head was severed from his body"

   "The soul discerped from the body"

   Synonyms: discerp, sever

Synonyms

clip, crop, dress, prune, snip, trim, discerp, sever

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in lop:

olp, plo, pol

Common word forms

lops, loped, loper, lopes, loping, lopped, lopper, lopping

Words from these letters

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