1. the dropping of the last sound or sounds of a word, for example when cup of tea becomes cuppa tea Compare : syncope
   Word Originmid 16th cent.: from late Latin, from Greek apokoptein ‘cut off’, from apo- ‘from’ + koptein ‘to cut’.

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