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• v  cut off from a whole
• v  cultivate, tend, and cut back the growth of

• Midcentury, things start to rock with Chuck Berry, "Wop-bop-a-loo-bop a-lop bam boom!" the Beatles, Aretha Franklin, "a hard rain's a-gonna fall," Bob Marley, Stevie Wonder.
• A maid who cleaned one of Uday's houses says she once saw him lop off the ear of one of his guards and then use a welder's torch on his face.
• Undaunted, singing their battle hymn, "Lop, lop, lop lop lop, lop lop lop.

• discerp
• sever
• snip
• clip
• crop
• trim
• dress
• prune
• cut back

News & Articles

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• It's time to tame your tomatoes
  Lopping an overgrown sucker off keeps the tomato plant neat and uncongested, a long-term benefit that makes this option best earlier in the season. A month from now, don't say I didn't warn you.
  June 20, 2013 - Everett Herald
• The PEN15 Mightier (June 17) - Post-Payback Random Thoughts (D-Bry, Cena, Ryback, Ziggles, ADR, RVD, Henry)
  Thank Jebus we have LOP and rumors to keep us excited for WWE. Every year, it seems WWE creative team shuts down post-Mania, and coasts along like Honky Tonk Man did with his title of “Best Intercontinental Champion of All Time.” In a period with dropping ratings and buyrates, new superstars attempting to make their impression on a ever more finicky fan base, and a stale main event scene driven ...
  June 17, 2013 - Lords of Pain
• LoP Radio - Ultimate Champion - Hulk Hogan VS John Cena
  Repo and I debuted Ultimate Champion, LoP Radio's take on The Deadliest Warrior, where we take two names in wrestling history and pit them against each other in fantasy warfare. In this episode, a Hero of one generation battles a Hero of another generation. This one was a lot of fun.
  June 14, 2013 - Lords of Pain

Quotes

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• Gary Hall Jr in The Age
  What I really marvel at is that Eamon was able to lop off a half second from his PB, unrested,Hall said. "That is something that only cheaters have been able to do in the past. From my own experiences it is IMPOSSIBLE to swim near your...
• Raghuram Rajan in San Diego Union Tribune
  The primary risk is of a greater slowing of house price growth than anticipated - we estimate that the effect of house prices staying flat, as opposed to growing by about 5 percent, could lop one percentage point off US growth,Rajan said.
• David Jablonski in Science Daily (press release)
  Extinctions in the past and presumably in the future will lop off chunks of evolutionary trees, not just prune the trees and leave most of the history intact,Jablonski said.