chop

plural chops

1. countableuncountableA cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

   I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.

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   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.

   1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 18

   I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.

   1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961

2. countableuncountableA blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.

   It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.

3. countableuncountablegovernmentA blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

   A karate chop.

4. countableuncountableOcean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
5. countableuncountablecard gamesA 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. countableinformaluncountablewith definite articleTermination, especially from employment; the sack.

   Synonyms: axe, pink slip, sack

7. AustraliaNew ZealandcountableuncountableA woodchopping competition.

   E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]

   1924 October 6, The Examiner, Launceston, page 2, column 6

8. countabledateduncountableA crack or cleft; a chap.
9. uncountableAircraft turbulence.
10. UKcountableslanguncountableCocaine.
11. Multicultural London EnglishcountableslanguncountableA 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?

    2025 May 1, SH, “Intro” (2:20 from the start)

    Synonyms: chete, jook, jooker, ching, ying, rambo, poker, pokey

present singular third person chops · participle present chopping · participle past chopped · past chopped

1. transitiveTo cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

   chop wood; chop an onion

2. transitiveTo sever with an axe or similar implement.

   Chop off his head.

3. figurativelytransitiveTo separate or divide.

   We should chop off some of that department's budget.

4. transitiveto give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
5. transitiveball gamesTo hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
6. card gamesTo divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
7. intransitiveTo make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
8. intransitiveTo 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.

   1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC

9. intransitiveTo interrupt; with in or out.

   This fellow […]interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.

   1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached before King Edward

10. Hong KongtransitiveTo stab.

    A man had chopped a Sanitary Department coolie to death after an argument about money, Supreme Court was told today.

    1959 June 8, China Mail, page 10

11. transitivecomputingTo remove the final character from (a text string).
12. slangtransitiveTo manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.

    He chopped out a fat line.

13. slangtransitiveTo have sex with.

    One of my bredrins is saying, what's the oldest ting he can chop?

present singular third person chops · participle present chopping · participle past chopped · past chopped

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.

   1644, John Milton, Areopagitica

2. To chap or crack.
3. nauticalTo vary or shift suddenly.

   The wind chops about.

4. obsoleteTo twist words.

   Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.

   1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC

5. To converse, discuss, or speak with another.

plural chops

1. A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.

plural chops · alternative chap

1. in pluralA 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

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   West Chop

plural chops · alternative obsolete chap · alternative obsolete chapp · alternative obsolete chope

1. BruneiHong KongIndiaMalaysiaSingaporecolloquialA 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.First known use 19th c.
2. BruneiMalaysiaSingaporebroadlycolloquialThe 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

present singular third person chops · participle present chopping · participle past chopped · past chopped · alternative obsolete chap · alternative obsolete chapp · alternative obsolete chope

1. BruneiHong KongIndiaMalaysiaSingaporecolloquialtransitiveTo 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.First known use 19th c.
2. To seal a licence or passport.

plural chops

1. InternetAn 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.

   1996, Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, page 404

   Synonyms: chanop, op

present singular third person chops · participle present chopping · participle past chopped · past chopped

1. informalTo fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.

   We chopped back to the base.

plural CHOPs

1. abbreviationacronymuncountablea chemotherapy regimen used in the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, consisting of Cyclophosphamide, Hydroxydaunorubicin (also called doxorubicin or adriamycin), Oncovin (vincristine) and Prednisone or Prednisolone
2. abbreviationacronymcountableuncountablegovernmentAcronym of change of operational control.

1. abbreviationacronymAcronym of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

   […] said study co-leader William H. Peranteau, MD, a pediatric and fetal surgeon in CHOP's Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment.

   2018 October 8, “Guided by CRISPR, Prenatal Gene Editing Used in Treating Congenital Disease Before Birth”, in R&D Magazine

2. abbreviationacronymhistoricalAcronym of Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.

   In its earliest days, the CHOP had support from some city officials, including Durkan, who at the time described a "block party atmosphere" and referenced the "Summer of Love" in a CNN interview.

   2021 June 8, Lucas Combos, “A Year After Seattle's CHOP Formed, Some Questions Linger”, in Patch, archived from the original on 04 Jul 2021

   Synonyms: CHAZ

1. A city, the administrative center of Chop urban hromada, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1281.
   1. historicalA miskrada in Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, established in 1957, disestablished in June 2020.
   2. An urban hromada of Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, established in June 2020.
   3. A railway station in Chop, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, opened in December 4, 1872