Definition for COL'LOP

COL'LOP, n.

  1. A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. – Dryden.
  2. In burlesque, a child. – Shak. In Job. xv. 27, it seems to have the sense of a thick piece or fleshy lump. “He maketh collops of fat on his flanks.” This is the sense of the word in New England.

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