lop off
English edit
Etymology edit
See lop.
Verb edit
lop off (third-person singular simple present lops off, present participle lopping off, simple past and past participle lopped off)
- (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 edit
- (to cut off): snead
Translations edit
cut off top or end