chop down

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

1. transitiveUsed other than figuratively or idiomatically: see chop, down.

   chop down a tree

2. idiomatictransitiveTo curtail, shorten

   In the final edit, the film was chopped down to two hours.

3. datedslangtransitiveTo attack (someone) with a knife; to kill (someone), especially by shooting with an automatic weapon.