Cŏl'lop, n.

n. [From O. Fr. colp, blow, stroke, piece, N. Fr. coup, Pr. colp, It. colpo, L. Lat. colapus, colopus, from Lat. colaphus, Gr. κόλαφος, buffet, cuff.] [Written also colp.] 1. A small slice of meat; a piece of flesh. God knows thou art a collop of my flesh, And for thy sake I have shed many a tear. Shak. Sweetbreads and collops were with skewers pricked. Dryden. 2. A part or piece of any thing. This, indeed, with the former, cut two good collops out of the crown land. Fuller