chop shop
noun
: a place where stolen automobiles are stripped of salable parts
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Recent Examples on the Web Mike Tyson is playing an arms-dealing, chop shop–owning gangster. 
Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 May 2022 Dunkins pleaded guilty to the three counts in exchange for having two third-degree burglary charges and an additional operating chop shop charge dropped. Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2022 Anyone with information about the chop shop is asked to contact the department. Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2021 An investigation involving the Detroit Police Commercial Auto Section led to a chop shop in the 13900 block of Penrod Street. Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2020 They were found scattered throughout the capital city, along with a Toyota Camry and Honda CRV stolen in Hartford, and detectives believe are individual cases of theft and not tied to a particular chop shop. Zach Murdock, courant.com, 25 Sep. 2020 Wiener defended Sheehy and pointed to the supervisor’s legislative accomplishments, including a law to discourage bicycle chop shops. Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018 In 2004 he was arrested for a slew of car thefts and running a chop shop. al, 29 Jan. 2020 The Giants prevailed in the Super Bowl back in 2012, distant enough for that Eldorado to be sold for parts by now at some chop shop in Queens. Dan Barry, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2019 See More
Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 May 2022 Dunkins pleaded guilty to the three counts in exchange for having two third-degree burglary charges and an additional operating chop shop charge dropped. Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2022 Anyone with information about the chop shop is asked to contact the department. Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2021 An investigation involving the Detroit Police Commercial Auto Section led to a chop shop in the 13900 block of Penrod Street. Tyler J. Davis, Detroit Free Press, 8 Oct. 2020 They were found scattered throughout the capital city, along with a Toyota Camry and Honda CRV stolen in Hartford, and detectives believe are individual cases of theft and not tied to a particular chop shop. Zach Murdock, courant.com, 25 Sep. 2020 Wiener defended Sheehy and pointed to the supervisor’s legislative accomplishments, including a law to discourage bicycle chop shops. Rachel Swan, San Francisco Chronicle, 23 Jan. 2018 In 2004 he was arrested for a slew of car thefts and running a chop shop. al, 29 Jan. 2020 The Giants prevailed in the Super Bowl back in 2012, distant enough for that Eldorado to be sold for parts by now at some chop shop in Queens. Dan Barry, New York Times, 30 Dec. 2019 See More Word History
First Known Use
1977, in the meaning defined above
Legal Definition
chop-shop
noun
ˈchäp-ˌshäp
: a place where stolen automobiles are stripped of salable parts
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