a. Sc. Obs. [f. FOR- pref.1 + loppin, pa. pple. of loup, LEAP v.] Fugitive, runaway, vagabond.

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1500–20.  Dunbar, Poems, xxxiii. 5.

        Methocht a Turk of Tartary
Come throw the boundis of Barbary,
And lay forloppin in Lumbardy.

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157[?].  Satir. Poems Reform., xlv. 8. Ane fals, forloppen, fenyeit freir.

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