chop down vs lop

chop down

verb
  • Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop, down. 

  • To curtail, shorten 

lop

verb
  • To hang downward; to be pendent; to lean to one side. 

  • To allow to hang down. 

  • 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. 

noun
  • That which is lopped from anything, such as branches from a tree. 

  • Any of several breeds of rabbits whose ears lie flat. 

  • A flea. 

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