chop up

English

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Verb

chop up (third-person singular simple present chops up, present participle chopping up, simple past and past participle chopped up)

1. (transitive) To separate or divide something that was whole.
   1. (transitive) To cut or chop (meat, etc.) into separate pieces.
   2. (transitive, music) To convert a sampled audio file into short segments.
2. (transitive) To cause a body of water to become choppy.

   The wind chopped up the lake.

3. (transitive, obsolete) To seize or devour greedily.
   • 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC:

     Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopt up.