chop
Part of speech: noun
verb
Morphological type: simple
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Etymology: From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic, or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”).
Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare also Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.
Inflected forms:
form: chops
pos: noun
tags: plural
form: chops
pos: verb
tags: present
singular
third-person
form: chopping
pos: verb
tags: participle
present
form: chopped
pos: verb
tags: participle
past
form: chopped
pos: verb
tags: past
Senses:
gloss: A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
Of the two fried chops served him for breakfast he ate one and gave Edmund the other, and put a buttered sandwich of bread in his pocket against the accidents of travel.
I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.
gloss: A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
gloss: A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: A karate chop.
gloss: Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
gloss: A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
pos: noun
tags: countable
uncountable
examples: With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.
gloss: Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
pos: noun
tags: countable
informal
uncountable
with-definite-article
gloss: A woodchopping competition.
pos: noun
tags: Australia
New-Zealand
countable
uncountable
examples: E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]
gloss: A crack or cleft; a chap.
pos: noun
tags: countable
dated
uncountable
gloss: Aircraft turbulence.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
gloss: Cocaine.
pos: noun
tags: UK
countable
slang
uncountable
gloss: A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
pos: noun
tags: Multicultural-London-English
countable
slang
uncountable
examples: It's peak when the mandem spotty
I gonna need more than a dot-dot
Capisce, got a problem for swinging this chop?
gloss: To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: chop wood; chop an onion
gloss: To sever with an axe or similar implement.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
examples: Chop off his head.
gloss: To separate or divide.
pos: verb
tags: figuratively
transitive
examples: We should chop off some of that department's budget.
gloss: to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
pos: verb
gloss: To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
gloss: To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: Out of a Greediness to get both, he Chops at the Shadow, and Loses the Substance.
gloss: To interrupt; with in or out.
pos: verb
tags: intransitive
examples: This fellow […]interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
gloss: To stab.
pos: verb
tags: Hong-Kong
transitive
examples: A man had chopped a Sanitary Department coolie to death after an argument about money, Supreme Court was told today.
gloss: To remove the final character from (a text string).
pos: verb
tags: transitive
gloss: To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: He chopped out a fat line.
gloss: To have sex with.
pos: verb
tags: slang
transitive
examples: One of my bredrins is saying, what's the oldest ting he can chop?
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