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lop | x |

As a verb lop

is .

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

lop

English

Etymology 1

From (etyl) .

Noun

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

    References

    * * * * * * * *

    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

    *

    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
  • ----

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
  • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.
  • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike
  • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----