Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A small portion of food or a slice, especially of meat.
- noun A roll of fat flesh.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A slice or lump of flesh; a piece of meat.
- noun Figuratively A slice or piece of anything; anything in the shape of a collop.
- noun A rounded fold of flesh, as on some very fat animals.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh.
- noun A part or piece of anything; a portion.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Northern England A
slice ofmeat . - noun A
roll orfold offlesh on thebody . - noun A small piece, portion, or slice of something.
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Wherever grass grows there will a Kerry calf or "collop" be found.
Disturbed Ireland Being the Letters Written During the Winter of 1880-81. Bernard H. Becker
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But I never counted upon being beaten so thoroughly as I was; for knowing me now to be off my guard, the young hussy stopped at the farmyard gate, as if with a brier entangling her, and while I was stooping to take it away, she looked me full in the face by the moonlight, and jerked out quite suddenly, — ‘Can your love do a collop, John?’
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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This was true enough; and seeing no chance of anything more than cross questions and crooked purposes, at which a girl was sure to beat me, I even allowed her to lead me home, with the thoughts of the collop uppermost.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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Who can do him a red deer collop, except Sally herself, as I can?
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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But now you go into the parlour, dear, while I do your collop.
Lorna Doone Richard Doddridge 2004
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The pie only served to sharpen his appetite, and I heard him sharpening his knife and saying he must have a collop or two, for he was not near satisfied.
The Red Fairy Book 2003
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Inside the stable, others more fortunate stood in stalls, but they were such horses as will snap at you when you pass by them, and Inman turned and watched as a claybank mare bit a collop of flesh as big as a walnut out of the upper arm of one of the old market-bound men passing through the hall on the way to his room.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 2003
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Inside the stable, others more fortunate stood in stalls, but they were such horses as will snap at you when you pass by them, and Inman turned and watched as a claybank mare bit a collop of flesh as big as a walnut out of the upper arm of one of the old market-bound men passing through the hall on the way to his room.
Cold Mountain Frazier, Charles, 1950- Cold Mountain 1997
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A piece of collop in a frying-pan left on the table, and dirty crockery in the sink.
Maigret at the Crossroads Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963
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An 'if the pope himself said grace, I'd sooner starve than ate a collop of the crater.
Adrift in the Ice-Fields Charles W. Hall
yarb commented on the word collop
...shaping appetizing long words from the most unpromising scraps and collops.
- Nabokov, Ada, or Ardor.
May 17, 2008
hernesheir commented on the word collop
(n): Slices of meat.
January 4, 2009