chop
IPA: tʃˈɑp
noun
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
- (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
- 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.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
- A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
- (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.
- (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.
- (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.
- A license or passport that has been sealed.
- A complete shipment.
- (Internet) An IRC channel operator.
- (uncountable, acronym) a chemotherapy regimen used in the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, consisting of Cyclophosphamide, Hydroxydaunorubicin (also called doxorubicin or adriamycin), Oncovin (vincristine) and Prednisone or Prednisolone
- A city in Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine
- (military) Acronym of change of operational control.
- Acronym of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
- (historical) Acronym of Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.
verb
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (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.
- (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.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
- To chap or crack.
- (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
- (obsolete) To twist words.
- To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
- (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.
- To seal a license or passport.
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Examples of "chop" in Sentences
- A lamb chop is chuleta de carnero or chuleta de cordero.
- The pork chop is now crying about the World Trade Center plane crash.
- "Well, I suppose I am; but that's what I call chop logic -- aren't it, master?"
- One thing to clarify about judo: The only place you're likely to see a "judo chop" is in an Austin Powers movie.
- The chop is extremely delicious what with the soft and sweet texture of the beet alongside the savoury taste of potato, bread and salt.
- While many would like to believe that a low was made in early August, if history is any guide investors are likely to find themselves entering what we call the "chop zone" as we move into the month of September.
- Then the giddy feeling grew more oppressive, the trees began to slowly sail round him, and there appeared to be several squirrels and several branches all whisking their bushy tails and uttering that peculiar sound of theirs -- _chop, chop, chop_, -- as if they had learned it from the noise made by the woodman in felling trees.
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