chopping /chopˈing/

Stout, strapping, plump

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

chop² /chop/

1. To buy and sell, barter, or exchange (Milton)
2. To change direction (meaning converging with chop¹)

1. An exchange
2. A change

chopˈlogic noun

1. False reasoning, illogicalness, sophistry
2. A person who chops logic

chop and change

1. To buy and sell
2. To change about

chop logic

To argue contentiously or fallaciously

chops and changes

Vicissitudes

chop³ /chop/ (informal)

1. The chap or jaw
2. (in pl) a person with fat cheeks
3. The mouth or jaws of anything, such as a cannon or a vice

To eat

To snap

chopˈfallen adjective

1. Literally, having the chop or lower jaw fallen down
2. Cast-down
3. Dejected

lick one's chops

To wait eagerly or greedily

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• saugh
• saul
• saulge
• saulges
• saulie
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• sault
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• sauna
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• saunt
• saunter
• sauntered
• saunterer
• saunterers
• sauntering
• saunteringly
• saunterings
• saunters
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