transcription, транскрипция: [ lɒp ]
( lops, lopping, lopped)
• lop off
1.
If you lop something off , you cut it away from what it was attached to, usually with a quick, strong stroke.
Somebody lopped the heads off our tulips.
...men with axes, lopping off branches...
His ponytail had been lopped off.
= chop
PHRASAL VERB : V n P , V P n (not pron) , V P n (not pron)
2.
If you lop an amount of money or time off something such as a budget or a schedule, you reduce the budget or schedule by that amount. ( INFORMAL )
The Air France plane lopped over four hours off the previous best time...
More than 100 million pounds will be lopped off the prison building programme.
PHRASAL VERB : V n P n , V n P n , also V P n (not pron) , V n P