Lopped vs Bopped - What's the difference?
lopped | bopped |
(lop)
(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.
That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree.
(US, slang) A disabled person, a cripple.
* 1935 : Rex Stout, The League of Frightened Men , p5
Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat.
wolf
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(bop)
To gently or playfully strike someone or something.
A style of improvised jazz from the 1940s.
A party.
* 2005 , Johnny Rich, Push Guide to Which University (page 472)
* 2012 , Owen Jones, Chavs: The Demonization of the Working Class (page 120)
To dance to this music, or indeed any sort of popular music with a strong beat.
As verbs the difference between lopped and bopped
is that lopped is (lop) while bopped is (bop).lopped
English
Verb
(head)lop
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) .References
* * * * * * * *Etymology 2
From (etyl) loppe.Verb
(lopp)- to lop the head
Synonyms
* (to cut off)Derived terms
* lopper, loppersSee also
* defalcateNoun
(en noun)- (Shakespeare)
- (Mortimer)
References
*Etymology 3
from lopsided.Noun
(en noun)- "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."
See also
* lobAnagrams
* (l) * (l), (l) ---- ==Franco-Provençal==Noun
bopped
English
Verb
(head)bop
English
Etymology 1
imitative of the sound madeVerb
Etymology 2
shortened from bebopNoun
- Theatres; Music House used for bands; May Ball; very popular weekly bops in JCR and MCR; library (57,000 books); 40 networked PCs, 24-hrs.
- At universities like Oxford, middle-class students hold 'chav bops' where they dress up as this working-class caricature.