MEANING
To move in an awkward, rolling way, especially with loose or uneven steps.
Use it for
describing a large animal’s rolling movement; portraying an awkward loose-limbed gait; making movement gently comic; distinguishing a rolling gait from a smooth walkMakes an awkward, rolling gait visible, especially in a large animal or loosely moving person. Writing functions: Movement.
Words that belong together
- lollop along
- lollop across a field
- lollop toward someone
On the page
The dog lolloped across the yard, its paws too large for its body.
He lolloped down the corridor with the loose, uneven stride she remembered.
Word forms
- Base
- lollop
- Past tense
- lolloped
- Past participle
- lolloped
- Present participle
- lolloping
Full tense & aspect guide
- Present
- lollop
- Present continuous
- am/is/are lolloping
- Present perfect
- have/has lolloped
- Present perfect continuous
- have/has been lolloping
- Past
- lolloped
- Past continuous
- was/were lolloping
- Past perfect
- had lolloped
- Past perfect continuous
- had been lolloping
- Future
- will lollop
- Future continuous
- will be lolloping
- Future perfect
- will have lolloped
- Future perfect continuous
- will have been lolloping
Choose the auxiliary that agrees with your subject. These are constructions of one word, not separate entries.
Usage notes
Intransitive, often with a direction: lollop, lollops, lolloped, lolloped, lolloping; future will lollop. No doubled final p in the usual forms. Register: informal. Commonness: uncommon (qualitative editorial estimate, informed by dictionaries/corpus).
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