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Chops; Chop (disambiguation); Chops (album); CHOP
chop
(chops, chopping, chopped)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
If you chop something, you cut it into pieces with strong downward movements of a knife or an axe.
Chop the butter into small pieces...
Visitors were set to work chopping wood.
...chopped tomatoes.
VERB: V n into n, V n, V-ed
2.
A chop is a small piece of meat cut from the ribs of a sheep or pig.
...grilled lamb chops.
N-COUNT: usu n N
3.
When people chop and change, they keep changing their minds about what to do or how to act. (BRIT INFORMAL)
Don't ask me why they have chopped and changed so much.
PHRASE: Vs inflect
4.
If something is for the chop or is going to get the chop, it is going to be stopped or closed. If someone is for the chop, they are going to lose their job or position. (BRIT INFORMAL)
He won't say which programmes are for the chop...
PHRASE
chop
chop1
¦ verb (chops, chopping, chopped)
1. cut with repeated sharp, heavy blows of an axe or knife.
strike with a short, heavy blow.
2. ruthlessly abolish or reduce in size.
¦ noun
1. a downward cutting blow or movement.
2. a thick slice of meat, especially pork or lamb, adjacent to and usually including a rib.
3. (the chop) Brit. informal dismissal, cancellation, or killing.
4. N. Amer. crushed or ground grain used as animal feed.
5. a broken motion of waves.
Phrases
chop logic argue in a tiresomely pedantic way. [C16: from a dialect use of chop meaning 'bandy words'.]
Origin
ME: var. of chap1.
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chop2
¦ verb (chops, chopping, chopped) (in phr. chop and change) Brit. informal change one's opinions or behaviour repeatedly and abruptly.
Origin
ME (in the sense 'barter, exchange'): perh. related to OE ceap 'bargaining, trade'; cf. chap- in chapman.
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chop3
¦ noun archaic a trademark or brand of goods.
Phrases
not much chop Austral./NZ informal unsatisfactory.
Origin
C19: from Hindi chap 'stamp, brand'.
chop
I. v. a.
1.
Cut (with a quick blow).
2.
Mince, cut into small pieces.
II. v. n.
Shift, veer, change suddenly.
III. n.
1.
Slice, piece cut off.
2.
Brand, quality.
3.
Crop (of tea).
4.
Jaw, chap.
Examples of use of chop
1. "Let us make Jihad, move to the front line, to chop, chop head of kuffar swine," she wrote.
2. "Even the children could not go to school, even in the more secure areas of the city," said Qasim Ali, 32, who woke up to the sound of booming mortars and the chop–chop–chop of helicopters overhead.
3. If you chop off an arm, it will grow back within months and if you chop a starfish in half, it will grow back into two.
4. Cuddling her son Ben, she said: "Teachers at school said I was lazy, I was always told ‘chop, chop‘ by teachers in PE lessons.
5. Article continues Destinations are also facing the chop.