chop
nounverbverbnounnounnounverbnounverbcommon in dialogue
- United Kingdom//t͡ʃɒp//
- United States//t͡ʃɑp//
A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
noun
- 1
A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
Of the two fried chops served him for breakfast he ate one and gave Edmund the other, and put a buttered sandwich of bread in his pocket against the accidents of travel.
I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.
- 2
A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
- 3
A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
A karate chop.
- 4
Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- 5
A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.
- 6
informalTermination, especially from employment; the sack.
- 7
A woodchopping competition.
E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]
- 8
datedA crack or cleft; a chap.
- 9
Aircraft turbulence.
- 10
slangCocaine.
- 11
slangA knife, especially one used as a weapon.
It's peak when the mandem spotty I gonna need more than a dot-dot Capisce, got a problem for swinging this chop?
Etymology
From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic (cf. Swedish tjoff), or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”). Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip. Compare French couper (“to chop”), Ancient Greek κόπτω (kóptō, “to strike, cut”), Swedish and Norwegian kapa, kappa, kabba (“to chop/cut (off)”).
verb
- 1
To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
chop wood; chop an onion
- 2
To sever with an axe or similar implement.
Chop off his head.
- 3
figurativeTo separate or divide.
We should chop off some of that department's budget.
- 4
to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- 5
To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
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To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
- 7
To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- 8
To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
Out of a Greediness to get both, he Chops at the Shadow, and Loses the Substance.
- 9
To interrupt; with in or out.
This fellow […]interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
- 10
To stab.
A man had chopped a Sanitary Department coolie to death after an argument about money, Supreme Court was told today.
- 11
To remove the final character from (a text string).
- 12
slangTo manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
He chopped out a fat line.
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slangTo have sex with.
One of my bredrins is saying, what's the oldest ting he can chop?
verb
- 1
obsoleteTo exchange, to barter; to swap.
this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of commuting our penance.
- 2
To chap or crack.
- 3
To vary or shift suddenly.
The wind chops about.
- 4
obsoleteTo twist words.
Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
- 5
To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
Etymology
Uncertain, perhaps a variant of chap (“cheap”). Compare Middle English copen (“to buy”), Dutch kopen (“to buy”).
noun
- 1
A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
noun
- 1
A jaw of an animal.
- 2
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- 3
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
East Chop
West Chop
Etymology
From Middle English choppe (“jaw, jawbone”), related to Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”). Perhaps ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.
noun
- 1
A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
- 2
The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- 3
A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
silk of the first chop
- 4
A licence or passport that has been sealed.
- 5
A complete shipment.
a chop of tea
Etymology
Borrowed from Hindi छाप (chāp, “stamp”). Closely related to the similarly descended Malay word cap, which likely reinforced the English usage within the Malay world.
verb
- 1
To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.
- 2
To seal a licence or passport.
noun
- 1
An IRC channel operator.
IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops" — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.
Etymology
Shortening.
verb
- 1
informalTo fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
We chopped back to the base.
Etymology
Shortening of chopper.
Forms
- plural
- chops
- past tense
- chopped
- past participle
- chopped
- present participle
- chopping
- third person singular
- chops
chop · A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
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