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

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