chopin¹ /chopˈin/

1. An old French liquid measure containing nearly an English imperial pint
2. An old Scottish measure containing about an English quart

chopin² or chopine /cho-pēnˈ or chopˈin/

A high clog or patten introduced into England from Venice during the reign of Elizabeth I

chop¹ /chop/

1. To cut with a sudden blow (away, down, off, etc)
2. To cut into small pieces
3. To strike with a sharp blow (karate; also intransitive verb)
4. To thrust or clap (archaic)
5. To reduce greatly or abolish (informal)

1. To hack
2. To come suddenly or accidentally (archaic)
3. To thrust (archaic)
4. To crack or fissure
5. To take a direction (meaning converging with chop²)

1. An act of chopping
2. Chopped food
3. A piece cut off
4. A slice of mutton, lamb or pork, usu containing a rib
5. Food (W Afr informal)
6. A share (Aust and NZ sl)
7. A crack
8. A sharp downward blow
9. (with the) dismissal (informal)

choppˈer noun

1. A person or thing that chops
2. A cleaver
3. A helicopter (slang)
4. The penis (slang)
5. A type of motorcycle or bicycle with very high handlebars and a low saddle
6. A device for intermittently interrupting an electric current or beam of radiation
7. A submachine-gun (slang)
8. (in pl) teeth (slang)

choppˈily adverb

choppˈiness noun

choppˈing noun and adjective

choppˈy adjective

1. Full of chops or cracks
2. (of the sea, etc) running in irregular waves, rough (also choppˈing)

chopˈ-house noun

1. Esp formerly, a house where mutton-chops and beefsteaks are served
2. An eating-house

choppˈing-block or choppˈing-board noun

One on which material to be chopped is placed

choppˈing-knife noun

A knife for chopping or mincing meat

chop at

To aim a blow at

chop in

To break in, interrupt

chop up

To cut into small pieces

for the chop (informal)

About to be dismissed or killed

get the chop (informal)

1. To be dismissed from one's job, etc
2. To be killed

not much chop (Aust and NZ informal)

Not much good

on the chopping block

In serious danger of being abolished or discarded

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