English Explanatory Dictionary

chop

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
  2. A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
  3. A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
  4. Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
  5. A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
  6. Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
  7. A woodchopping competition.
  8. A crack or cleft; a chap.
  9. Aircraft turbulence.
  10. Cocaine.
  11. A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
verb
  1. To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
  2. To sever with an axe or similar implement.
  3. To separate or divide.
  4. to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
  5. To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
  6. To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
  7. To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
  8. To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
  9. To interrupt; with in or out.
  10. To stab.
  11. To remove the final character from (a text string).
  12. To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
verb
  1. To exchange, to barter; to swap.
  2. To chap or crack.
  3. To vary or shift suddenly.
  4. To twist words.
  5. To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
noun
  1. A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
noun
  1. A jaw of an animal.
  2. A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
  3. The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
noun
  1. 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.
  2. The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
  3. A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
  4. A licence or passport that has been sealed.
  5. A complete shipment.
verb
  1. 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.
  2. To seal a licence or passport.
noun
  1. An IRC channel operator.
verb
  1. To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
noun
  1. 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
  2. Acronym of change of operational control.
name
  1. Acronym of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
  2. Acronym of Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.
name
  1. A city, the administrative center of Chop urban hromada, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, first mentioned in 1281.
  2. A miskrada in Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, established in 1957, disestablished in June 2020.
  3. An urban hromada of Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, established in June 2020.
  4. A railway station in Chop, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, opened in December 4, 1872

Pronunciation

chŏp /t͡ʃɒp/ /t͡ʃɑp/ en-us-chop.ogg

Word forms

chop chops chopping chopped chap chapp chope

Etymology

From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic, or a variant of chap (“to become cracked”). Cognate with Scots chap (“to chop”). Compare also 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.

Synonyms

axe pink slip sack chete jook jooker ching ying rambo poker pokey bassy shank nank splash splasher cheffer cutter chanop op CHAZ

Related words

chop chop chop suey

Derived words

Baltimore chop big chop binary chop bust chops Chelsea chop chop and chat chop and drop chop-chop chop chord chop cup chop down chopette chop house chophouse chop it up choplet choplike chop logic chop-logic choplogic chop mill chop off chop onions chop out choppable chopped and screwed chopped liver chopped-nose chopper choppin' chopping block chopping board choppy chops chop shop chop-shop chopsocky chopstick chop up chump chop confirm plus chop fin chop first-chop for the chop French chop get the chop greenchop karate chop lambchop mutton chop muttonchop mutton-chop whiskers photochop pork chop pork chop island prechop reverse chops small chops stop and chop throttle chop

Translations

Belarusian: Чоп Carpathian Rusyn: Чоп German: Tschop Hungarian: Csap Marathi: चोप Polish: Czop Romanian: Ciop Russian: Чоп Slovak: Čop Ukrainian: Чоп Yiddish: טשאָפּ
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