chop
English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- (UK) enPR: chŏp, IPA(key): /t͡ʃɒp/
- (US) IPA(key): /t͡ʃɑp/
Audio (US) (file)
- Hyphenation: chop
- Rhymes: -ɒp
Etymology 1[edit]
From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly an onomatopoeia. Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje (“to hack; chop; lop off”), Dutch kappen (“to chop, cut, hew”), German Low German kappen (“to cut off; clip”), German kappen (“to cut; clip”), German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen (“to chop into small pieces”), Albanian copë (“piece, chunk”), Old English *ċippian (in forċippian (“to cut off”)). Perhaps related to chip.
Noun[edit]
chop (plural chops)
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
- 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 18:
- Of the two fried chops served him for breakfast he ate one and gave Edmund the other, and put a buttered sandwich of bread in his pocket against the accidents of travel.
- 1957, J. D. Salinger, "Zooey", in, 1961, Franny and Zooey:
- I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
- It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- A karate chop.
- Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- 1924 October 6, The Examiner, page 2, column 6:
- E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]
- (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
Quotations[edit]
- For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop.
Synonyms[edit]
Descendants[edit]
- → Japanese: チョップ
Translations[edit]
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Verb[edit]
chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)

- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- chop wood; chop an onion
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- Chop off his head.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- 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:
- Out of a Greediness to get both, he Chops at the Shadow, and Loses the Substance.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- 1550, Hugh Latimer, Sermon Preached before King Edward:
- This fellow […] interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- 1959 June 8, China Mail, page 10:
- A man had chopped a Sanitary Department coolie to death after an argument about money, Supreme Court was told today.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- Coordinate term: chomp
Translations[edit]
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Derived terms[edit]
- Baltimore chop
- binary chop
- bust chops
- chop-chop
- chop chord
- chop cup
- chop down
- chop house
- chop it up
- chop-logic
- chop logic
- chop mill
- choppable
- chopped and screwed
- chopped liver
- chopped-nose
- chopper
- chopping block
- chopping board
- choppy
- chops
- chop shop
- chop-shop
- chopsocky
- chopstick
- chop up
- chump chop
- confirm plus chop
- first-chop
- French chop
- get the chop
- greenchop
- karate chop
- mutton chop
- mutton-chop whiskers
- pork chop
- pork chop island
- reverse chops
- small chops
- throttle chop
- tomahawk chop
- try out one's own chops
- walleye chop
- woodchop
Etymology 2[edit]
Uncertain, perhaps a variant of chap (“cheap”). Compare Middle English copen (“to buy”), Dutch kopen (“to buy”).
Verb[edit]
chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)
- (obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
- 1644, John Milton, Areopagitica:
- this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of commuting our penance.
- To chap or crack.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- The wind chops about.
- (obsolete) To twist words.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC:
- Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
Noun[edit]
chop (plural chops)
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
Derived terms[edit]
Etymology 3[edit]
Perhaps a variant of chap (“jaw”). Compare also Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”).
Noun[edit]
chop (plural chops)
- (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.
- A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
- The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
- East Chop; West Chop
Etymology 4[edit]
Borrowed from Hindi छाप (chāp, “stamp”). Closely related to the similarly descended Malay word cap, which likely reinforced the English usage within the Malay world.
Noun[edit]
chop (plural chops)
- (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods. [from 19th c.]
- (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
- A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
- silk of the first chop
- A license or passport that has been sealed.
- A complete shipment.
- a chop of tea
Verb[edit]
chop (third-person singular simple present chops, present participle chopping, simple past and past participle chopped)
- (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity. [from 19th c.]
- To seal a license or passport.
Derived terms[edit]
References[edit]
- Lisa Lim (28 July 2016), “Where does the word 'chop' come from?”, in South China Morning Post[1]
Etymology 5[edit]
Shortening.
Noun[edit]
chop (plural chops)
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- 1996, Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, page 404:
- IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops" — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.
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Chinese[edit]
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Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chop
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) chop (stamp; seal) (Classifier: 個/个 c)
Verb[edit]
chop
- (Hong Kong Cantonese) to stamp; to seal
Nigerian Pidgin[edit]
Etymology[edit]
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)
Verb[edit]
chop
Silesian[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Inherited from Proto-Slavic *xolpъ.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
chop m pers
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