chopped

[chopt] Origin

chopped

[chopt]
adjective
1.
diced, minced, or cut into small bits.
2.
(of an automobile) streamlined; lowered.

Origin:
1540–50

un·chopped, adjective
well-chopped, adjective

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Chopped is always a great word to know.
So is bezoar. Does it mean:
a fool or simpleton; ninny.
a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison.
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chop

1[chop] 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.
EXPAND
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.
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.
COLLAPSE
20.
chop/cut down to size. cut (def. 87).

Origin:
1350–1400; Middle English choppen; variant of chap1


1. See cut.

chop

2[chop]
verb (used without object), chopped, chop·ping.
1.
to turn, shift, or change suddenly: The wind chopped to the west.
2.
to vacillate; change one's mind.
3.
Obsolete.
a.
to barter.
b.
to bandy words; argue.
4.
chop logic, to reason or dispute argumentatively; draw unnecessary distinctions.

Origin:
1425–75; variant of obsolete chap barter, Middle English chappen (with vowel as in chapman), chepen, Old English cēapian to trade (derivative of cēap sale, trade; see cheap)
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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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chop definition


  1. 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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