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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.
EXPANDto weed and thin out (growing cotton) with a hoe.
6.
COLLAPSEFox 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, 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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Chopping
is always a great word to know.
So is ort. Does it mean:
| a scrap or morsel of food left at a meal. |
| a calculus or concretion found in the stomach or intestines of certain animals, esp. ruminants, formerly reputed to be an effective remedy for poison. |
noun
Idiom11.
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.
EXPANDan 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.
COLLAPSE20.
chop/cut down to size. cut (def. 87).
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verb (used without object), chopped, chop·ping.
Idiom1.
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.
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Etymonline
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
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
Copyright 2007. Published by McGraw Hill.
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