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Definition of "collop" []

  • A small portion of food or a slice, especially of meat. (noun)
  • A roll of fat flesh. (noun)

American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition. Copyright (c) 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Use "collop" in a sentence
  • "Wherever grass grows there will a Kerry calf or "collop" be found."
  • "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?’"
  • "But now you go into the parlour, dear, while I do your collop."
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