chopsocky

English

Alternative forms

• chop-socky

Etymology

Punningly from chop suey (“stir-fried vegetable dish”), chop (“fighting blow”), and sock (“punch”). Coined by Variety magazine.

Noun

chopsocky (countable and uncountable, plural chopsockies)

1. (uncountable, film, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A genre of exaggerated martial arts films made primarily in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1960s and 1970s.
   • 1983, Variety's Film Reviews: 1978-1980:

     Chopsocky actioner with standard fight scenes and atrocious dubbing.

   • 2001, Lisa Morton, The Cinema of Tsui Hark:

     The chopsocky films garnered a small following in this country precisely because of their often-ludicrous dubbing and the unrealistically-hard smacking […]

   • 2003, Gary D Rawnsley, Political Communications in Greater China:

     […] bad enough that we settle for the typical chopsocky fare or do we protest and demand more realistic portrayals […]

2. (countable) An individual film of this kind.

Further reading

• chopsocky on Wikipedia.Wikipedia