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chopped

  [chopt]
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–adjective
1. diced, minced, or cut into small bits.
2. (of an automobile) streamlined; lowered.
Origin:
1540–50

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 fol. 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 fol. 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.
6. Fox Hunting. (of a hound or pack) to attack and kill (a fox that has not begun to run).
–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, esp. 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, esp. 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.
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.
—Idiom
20. chop or cut down to size. cut (def. 84).
Origin:
1350–1400; ME choppen; var. of chap 1

Synonyms:
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.
—Idiom
4. chop logic, to reason or dispute argumentatively; draw unnecessary distinctions.
Origin:
1425–75; var. of obs. chap barter, ME chappen (with vowel as in chapman ), chepen, OE cēapian to trade (deriv. of cēap sale, trade; see cheap )
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chop 1   (chŏp)   
v.   chopped, chop·ping, chops

v.   tr.

    1. To cut by striking with a heavy sharp tool, such as an ax: chop wood.

    2. To shape or form by chopping: chop a hole in the ice.

    3. To cut into small pieces: chop onions; chop up meat.

    4. To curtail as if by chopping: chopped off his sentence midway; are going to chop expenses.

  2. Sports To hit or hit at with a short swift downward stroke.

v.   intr.

  1. To make heavy, cutting strokes.

  2. Archaic To move roughly or suddenly.

n.  

  1. The act of chopping.

    1. A swift, short, cutting blow or stroke.

    2. Sports A short downward stroke.

    3. A short irregular motion of waves.

    4. An area of choppy water, as on an ocean.

  3. A piece that has been chopped off, especially a cut of meat, usually taken from the rib, shoulder, or loin and containing a bone.

    1. A short irregular motion of waves.

    2. An area of choppy water, as on an ocean.


[Middle English choppen, probably variant of chappen, to split; see chap1.]
chop 2   (chŏp)   
intr.v.   chopped, chop·ping, chops
To change direction suddenly, as a ship in the wind.

[Obsolete, to exchange, from Middle English choppen, to barter, bargain, variant of chapen, from Old English cēapian, from cēap, bargain, trade; see cheap.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
Copyright © 2009 by Houghton Mifflin Company.
Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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Slang Dictionary
chop

  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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Word Origin & History

chop  (2)
"shift," O.E. ceapian "to bargain," with a sense of "changing back and forth." Choppy, of seas, is attested from 1867.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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