Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adverb Right away; quickly.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Be quick; make haste.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- interjection Used to urge someone to do something
quickly - adverb slang
Quickly . - noun Australia, informal
Tobacco that is produced and sold withoutexcise (tax ), and therefore cheap and illegal.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adverb with rapid movements
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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Mr Crow said cigarette companies would be forced to drastically cut prices because no-name "chop-chop" tobacco and cigarettes - which cost as little as 30 per cent of a regular packet - would be more attractive.
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Mr Crow said cigarette companies would be forced to drastically cut prices because no-name "chop-chop" tobacco and cigarettes - which cost as little as 30 per cent of a regular packet - would be more attractive.
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If the sonnets, odes, and elegies are primarily concerned with "memory, private reclamation, and linguistic chop-chop," as Biespiel has it, why would a public yearning for "moral persuasion" bother with it?
Saying Something 2010
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If the sonnets, odes, and elegies are primarily concerned with "memory, private reclamation, and linguistic chop-chop," as Biespiel has it, why would a public yearning for "moral persuasion" bother with it?
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If the sonnets, odes, and elegies are primarily concerned with "memory, private reclamation, and linguistic chop-chop," as Biespiel has it, why would a public yearning for "moral persuasion" bother with it?
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If the sonnets, odes, and elegies are primarily concerned with "memory, private reclamation, and linguistic chop-chop," as Biespiel has it, why would a public yearning for "moral persuasion" bother with it?
May 2010 2010
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If the sonnets, odes, and elegies are primarily concerned with "memory, private reclamation, and linguistic chop-chop," as Biespiel has it, why would a public yearning for "moral persuasion" bother with it?
Poetry 2010
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In capitalist, theocratic societies like fascist Saudi Arabia, the consequences of questioning religious authority often leads to capital punishment in public places known commonly as chop-chop square where, among many other cases, a woman loses her head because she's considered a witch for listening to music by the Beatles.
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I want to suggest that a great public will peer into the world of poetry if the poets will speak outside of the chiseled monuments of poems and distinct aesthetic debates directly to matters beyond memory, private reclamation, and linguistic chop-chop.
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In capitalist, theocratic societies like fascist Saudi Arabia, the consequences of questioning religious authority often leads to capital punishment in public places known commonly as chop-chop square where, among many other cases, a woman loses her head because she's considered a witch for listening to music by the Beatles.
kjola commented on the word chop-chop
be quick; hurry up
May 5, 2009
dontcry commented on the word chop-chop
I say this all the time -- but I'm not sure why. I mean, I know what I mean by it -- hurry up -- but I don't know why I say "chop-chop" instead.
May 5, 2009
madmouth commented on the word chop-chop
TFD suggests the 'chop' part of chopstick comes from the Cantonese for 'quick'; chop-chop may be a derivation of that meaning. Or it might just be a calque, but I'm not sure if there's a 'quick-quick' phrase in Cantonese.
May 5, 2009
bilby commented on the word chop-chop
See also chop chop.
May 5, 2009