chop

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  1. transitive verb To cut by striking with a heavy sharp tool, such as an ax: chop wood.
  2. transitive verb To shape or form by chopping: chop a hole in the ice.
  3. transitive verb To cut into small pieces: chop onions; chop up meat.
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  • The neatly cleaned bone of a chop was on a plate by her side; a small dish which had contained a rice-pudding was empty; and the only food left on the table was a small rind of cheese and a piece of stale bread. —  Short Cruises
  • On his appearance I informed him that I wanted dinner for two--chop chop! —  Life and sport in China Second Edition
  • The rush and the swing of the long line, the crack of the driver's mighty whip and his warning shouts to "Jack" or "Pete" to pull and keep step, the steady chop-chop thud of the sand-shaker, will be seen and heard no more. —  Children of the Tenements
  • Marian fancied she could hear the chop-chop of his frothing jaws Then, suddenly came catastrophe. —  The Blue Envelope
  • She saw his red tongue lolling, heard the chop-chop of his iron jaws and caught the wicked gleam of his eyes The boy appeared to time his pace, for he came on more slowly. —  The Blue Envelope
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fry ·  roast ·  stew ·  steak ·  pickle ·  pork ·  onion ·  salad ·  cabbage ·  slice ·  chicken ·  pie

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chop:   chopped ·  chops ·  chopping
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  1. Middle English choppen, probably variant of chappen, to split; see chap1.
  2. Obsolete, to exchange, from Middle English choppen, to barter, bargain, variant of chapen, from Old English cēapian, from cēap, bargain, trade; see cheap.
  3. Hindi chāp, seal.

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  1. Orig. identical with chap, which is now partly differentiated in use, though dial. (Scots) like chop in all senses (see chap); (1) from Middle English choppen, chappen, chop, cut, strike, chap (not found in Anglo-Saxon), = Middle Dutch koppen, cut off (the head or top of), lop, poll, amputate, kappen, Dutch kappen (later G. kappen), chop, cut, hew, mince, lop, poll, = Middle Low German koppen (later G. koppen), lop, poll, = Danish kappe, cut, poll, = Swedish kappa, cut; apparently an orig. verb, meaning ‘chop, cut with a sudden blow,’ mixed in form and senses with several verbs of other origin: (2) Middle Dutch koppen (= Middle Low German koppen = German köpfen), poll, lop, from kop (= German kopf = English cop), head, top (see cop); (3) Middle Dutch, Dutch Middle Low German koppen = English cup, bleed (see cup); (4) Middle Dutch kappen (= German kappen), poll (cf. German kappen, cap, hood), from kap = German kappe = English cap (see cap); (5) Middle Latin cappare, coppare, copare, coupare, cut, poll, partly from the above, but partly a reflex of Old French couper (later Middle English coupen, caupen), cut, strike: see coup, caup. Prob. not connected with Gothic (Moesogothic) kaupatjan, strike, slap, or, as supposed (through an assumed root *skap), with Greek κόπτειν, cut, κάπων, a capon (see capon), and Old Bulgarian skopiti = Russian skopitĭ; = Servian shkopiti = Polish skopic, castrate, later Old Bulgarian skopitsi = Russian skopctsŭ = Servian shkopats, a eunuch, = Polish Bohemian skop (later G. schöps), a gelded ram, a mutton. Hence chip, q. v.
  2. from Middle English chop, a stroke, blow; from the verb.
  3. A variant of chap = cheap, v. (cf. Middle English copen, buy, from Dutch koopen, buy): see cheap, v., and cope; cf. caup. From the sense of ‘barter’ comes naturally the sense of ‘exchange,’ and hence ‘turn’; but there seems to have been confusion of this word with chop, q. v.
  4. from chop, v.
  5. Var. of chap, q. v.
  6. from Hindustani chhāp, stamp, seal, print, copy, impression.
 

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