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collop

noun
/ˈkɒləp/UK

Etymology

Late Middle English, of North Germanic origin, from Swedish kalops (“stewed meat”), from Old Swedish kollops (“slices of beef stew”). Cognate to German Klops (“dish of meat made tender by beating”).

  1. derived from kollops
  2. derived from kalops

Definitions

  1. A slice of meat.

  2. A slice of bacon, a rasher.

  3. A roll or fold of flesh on the body.

  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. A small piece, portion, or slice of something.

    2. To cut into collops (thin slices)

      • This induced me to make a further trial, and to get some of them colloped as we do oysters in shells, I swallowed them up myself.
      • They colloped it, and spitted skilfully, Then roasted carefully and slipped them off.
      • I neither egged thee nor colloped thee. If I had egged thee, though mights yet chese.

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sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA