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# lollop

«lollop» in Mova's school dictionary: **To move along in a clumsy, bouncing, loose way, like a…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

verb (lollop, lollops, lolloped, lolloping — informal)

### meaning for a pupil

To move along in a clumsy, bouncing, loose way, like a big puppy or a rabbit. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lollop/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

A fun descriptive word in stories about animals: dogs lollop, hares lollop, a big friendly creature lollops along. It paints a picture of floppy, happy movement. Kipling uses this kind of bounding movement for the Kangaroo in the Just So Stories, chased by Yellow-Dog Dingo.

### examples

- The big puppy came lolloping across the garden. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lollop/#x1)
- The hare lolloped away over the field. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lollop/#x2)
- Rabbits lollop when they are not in a hurry. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lollop/#x3)
- The kangaroo lolloped across the plain. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lollop/#x4)
- A shaggy dog lolloped up to say hello. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lollop/#x5)
- The baby elephant lolloped behind its mother. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lollop/#x6)

### note

Informal. Spelled with one p in the past: lolloped, lolloping (stress on LOL). Similar: bound, lope, bounce.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «lollop» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/L/lollop/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.