Lop off has 2 different meanings across 1 category:
Verb
Verb
1
remove by or as if by cutting
"cut off the ear"
"lop off the dead branch"
2
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.
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