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verb,
chopped,
chop·ping,
noun
verb (used with object)
1.
to cut or sever with a quick, heavy blow or a series of blows, using an ax, hatchet, etc. (often followed by
down, off,
etc.):
to chop down a tree.
2.
to make or prepare for use by so cutting:
to chop logs.
3.
to cut in pieces; mince (often followed by
up
):
to chop up an onion; to chop meat.
4.
(in tennis, cricket, etc.) to hit (a ball) with a
chop stroke
.
5.
to weed and thin out (growing cotton) with a hoe.
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6.
Fox Hunting
.
(of a hound or pack) to attack and kill (a fox that has not begun to run).
COLLAPSE
verb (used without object)
7.
to make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, as with an ax.
8.
Boxing
.
to
throw
or deliver a short blow, especially a downward one while in a clinch.
9.
(in tennis, cricket, etc.) to employ or deliver a
chop stroke
.
10.
to go, come, or move suddenly or violently.
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noun
11.
an act or instance of chopping.
12.
a cutting blow.
13.
Boxing
.
a short blow, especially a downward one, executed while in a clinch.
14.
a piece chopped off.
15.
an individual cut or portion of meat, as mutton, lamb, veal, or pork, usually one containing a rib.
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16.
crushed or ground grain used as animal feed.
17.
a short, irregular, broken motion of waves; choppiness:
There's too much chop for rowing today.
18.
rough, turbulent water, as of a sea or lake.
19.
chop stroke.
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Idiom
20.
chop
/
cut down to size.
cut
(
def. 87
)
.
Origin:
1350–1400;
Middle English
choppen;
variant of
chap
1
Synonyms
1.
See
cut.
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Based on the Random House Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2012.
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Word Origin & History
chop
"shift," O.E. ceapian "to bargain" (see
cheap
), here with a sense of "changing back and forth."
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2010 Douglas Harper
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Slang Dictionary
chop definition
n.
a rude remark; a cutting remark. :
That was a rotten chop! Take it back!
Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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