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• trop
  trop

  adverb

  too; too much or too many.
• trop-
  trop-

  variant of tropo- before a vowel.
• trop.
  trop.

  abbreviation

  tropic.

trop

¹ American  

[troh] / troʊ /

adverb

French.

1. too; too much or too many.

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trop- ² American  

1. variant of tropo- before a vowel.

   tropism.

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trop. ³ American  

abbreviation

1. tropic.

2. tropical.

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Usage

What does trop- mean? Trop- is a combining form used like a prefix variously meaning "turn," "reaction, response,” or "change." It is used in some technical terms. Trop- ultimately comes from the Greek trópos, “turn," and tropḗ, "a turning." The Greek trópos is also the source of the words trope and tropical. It’s your turn to make the connection between “turning,” figures of speech, and the tropics at our entries for the words. Trop- is a variant of tropo-, which loses its -o- when combined with words or word elements beginning with vowels. Want to know more? Read our Words That Use tropo- article. Corresponding forms of trop- and tropo- combined to the end of words are -trope, -tropic, -tropism, -tropous, and -tropy. Learn about their specific applications in our Words That Use articles for the forms.

Example Sentences

Likewise, Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu claims there’s a stark difference between her and her role of Sylvie, Madeline’s trop chic Parisian business rival.

From Seattle Times • Dec. 21, 2022

In the silences, she often sighed, “Je suis trop blasé.”

From The Guardian • Aug. 29, 2017

I wonder whether you believe that the death penalty has always and everywhere been de trop, too much, or that something happened to enable us to dispense with it without thereby increasing the murder rate.

From Slate • Apr. 28, 2017

As one duchesse complained, “On est trop organizé chez elle. One can’t so much as forget one’s umbrella at Madame Wharton’s with impunity.”

From The New Yorker • Feb. 23, 1929

I’ll offer, and she doubles over, pink-faced, declaring me de trop.

From "The Poisonwood Bible" by Barbara Kingsolver