2. Informal, valuables, treasures, prizes, gifts, possessions, purchases, goods; riches, hoardings, savings, stock, cache.
3. Slang, money, wealth, riches. See money.
4. plundering, pillaging, sacking, Rare, sackage, despoliation, foraging; ravishment, seizure, grab, rape. -v. 5. abduct, kidnap, SI. snatch, rape, capture, seize, make off with, carry off, steal; commandeer, expropriate.
6. despoil, spoliate, plunder, pillage, sack, ransack, forage; ravage, harry, maraud, depredate.
7. rob, burglarize, burgle, steal from, embezzle from; fleece, raid; swindle, defraud.
lop¹, v. 1. cut off, chop off, sever, truncate, obtruncate, detruncate; trim off, detach, amputate, prune, dock, crop, shorten, clip, top, shear, mow, cut short, bob, pare, shave, snip; gash, slice off, abscind, split, carve, cleave, sunder; rend, rive, divide; section, apportion, dissect, cut apart, disjoint, disjoin, disunite; dismember, mutilate, commit mayhem.
2. edit, abridge, abbreviate, condense; contract, epitomize, summarize, abstract; curtail, cut back, reduce, diminish, cut down on; dilute, water down, water, thin out; adulterate, weaken, Inf. doctor; eliminate, expurgate, bowdlerize.
lop², v. droop, hang limply, sag, hang down; bend, bow, (of trees, flowers, etc.) nod; dip, lean, curve; sink, slump, settle, drop; hang loosely, depend from, dangle, loll.
lope, v. bound, leap, spring, gambol, frolic, frisk, caper, romp, prance, dance along, buck; jump, hop, bob, curvet, skip; Inf. move right along, canter, gallop; hurry, hasten, hie, dart, scamper.
lopsided, adj. unsymmetrical, asymmetrical, unbalanced, unequalized, uneven, unequal, dispropor-tioned, disproportionate, irregular; out of line, askew, awry, SI. cockeyed, crooked, warped, out of shape.
loquacious, adj. 1. talkative, garrulous, voluble, multiloquous, long-tongued, Inf big-mouthed, SI. all jaw, SI. gassy, SI. windy; chattering, chatty, gabby, gibbering, babbling, blabbering, blathering, jabbering, gossipy, Inf. blessed with or possessed of the gift of gab.
2. iong-winded, wordy; diffuse, discursive, digressive, maundering, wandering, rambling, roving, aimless; circumlocutory, roundabout, ambagious.
loquacity, n. 1. talkativeness, garrulity, verbosity, prolixity, long-windedness, longiloquence, multilo-quence, Inf. gabbiness, Inf. windiness, Inf. gassiness, Inf. gift of gab; overtalkativeness, loose tongue, Inf big mouth.
2. chatter, jabber, babble, prating, prattle, palaver, gabble, blabber, blather; chitter-chatter, prittle-prat-tle, tittle-tattle, mere talk, idle talk, idle gossip; All SI. yakkety-yak, blah-blah, guff, gas, hot air.
lord, n. 1. lord and master, overlord, master, chief, ruler, tyrant, dictator; king, sovereign, monarch, majesty, crowned head, potentate, dynast; prince, emperor, rajah, maharajah, czar, caeser, kaiser, Fr. roi, Latin, rex, sheik, khan, governor, te-trarch; president, Inf. prez, premier, chief-of-state, head-of-state, chief executive, captain of the ship of state; superior, commander, commandant, general, chieftain, high chief, (of some tribes of American Indians) sachem.
2. headman, head, captain, Inf. boss, Inf. bossman, Inf. big boss, man-in-charge; chairman, headmaster, principal, dean, director, administrator; executive, manager, overseer, supervisor, superintendent, Inf. super, foreman, Brit, gaffer; Inf. kingpin, Inf king-fish, Inf number one, Inf. Mr. Big. Sl. top dog, Sl. head honcho, Sl. big cheese, Fr. grand frontage, Sl. big wheel or wheel, Sl. high man on the totem pole.