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Lopped vs Looped - What's the difference?

lopped | looped |

As verbs the difference between lopped and looped

is that lopped is (lop) while looped is (loop).

As an adjective looped is

having loops.

lopped

English

Verb

(head)
  • (lop)

    • lop

    English

    Etymology 1

    From (etyl) .

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (Geordie) A flea.
    • (Cleveland)
    Hadway wi ye man, ye liftin wi lops

    References

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    Etymology 2

    From (etyl) loppe.

    Verb

    (lopp)
  • (usually with off) 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.
  • To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side.
  • To allow to hang down.
    • to lop the head
    Synonyms
    * (to cut off)
    Derived terms
    * lopper, loppers

    See also

    * defalcate

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
    • (Shakespeare)
    (Mortimer)

    References

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    Etymology 3

    from lopsided.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
  • * 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
    • "He's a lop ; it mentions here about his getting up to the stand with his crippled leg but it doesn't say which one."
  • Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.

    • See also

    * lob

    Anagrams

    * (l) * (l), (l) ---- ==Franco-Provençal==

    Noun

  • wolf
    • ----

    looped

    English

    Verb

    (head)
  • (loop)

    • Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • having loops
  • formed into a loop
  • (of part of a fingerprint) whorled
  • (slang) drunk

    • Anagrams

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