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lop off

v. remove by or as if by cutting; "cut off the ear"; "lop off the dead branch" [syn: cut off, chop off]

Usage examples of "lop off".

And at home they'll know you for deserters and lop off your fool heads, thought Chett.

So here is Cersei's nightmare: while her father and brother spend their power battling Starks and Tullys, Lord Stannis will land, proclaim himself king, and lop off her son's curly blond head .

It was the work of a moment for Matthias to lop off a long larch branch.

He stood over me with the sword in his hand, and made it clear that he would lop off my head at the first sign of treachery, but he allowed me to use my instruments.

You'd read this great resume, the guy would up and give a good interview, and as soon as he le job, he'd turn into a brain-dead lame donkey you n't move with a flaming two-by-four shoved up his Half the time you couldn't lop off the deadwood in : place because they'd sue for one kind of discrim- or another-gender, age, race, whatever.