Join free

CHOP

AI In plain words

Writing a short explanation…

Written by a house AI from the entry below, in your language. The entry itself is the source.

chop¹

  • /t͡ʃɒp/ UK
  • /t͡ʃɑp/ US

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

From Middle English choppen, chappen (“to chop”), of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic (cf. Swedish tjoff), 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.

Compare French couper (“to chop”), Ancient Greek κόπτω (kóptō, “to strike, cut”), Swedish and Norwegian kapa, kappa, kabba (“to chop/cut (off)”).

noun chops

  1. countable, uncountable A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib. I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
  2. countable, uncountable A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement. It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
  3. countable, uncountable A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched. A karate chop.
  4. countable, uncountable Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
  5. countable, uncountable A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them. With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.
  6. countable, informal, uncountable, with definite article Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
  7. Australia, New Zealand, countable, uncountable A woodchopping competition. E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]
  8. countable, dated, uncountable A crack or cleft; a chap.
  9. uncountable Aircraft turbulence.
  10. UK, countable, slang, uncountable Cocaine.
  11. Multicultural London English, countable, slang, uncountable A knife, especially one used as a weapon. It's peak when the mandem spotty I gonna need more than a dot-dot Capisce, got a problem for swinging this chop?

verb chops · chopping · chopped

  1. transitive To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions. chop wood; chop an onion
  2. transitive To sever with an axe or similar implement. Chop off his head.
  3. figuratively, transitive To separate or divide. We should chop off some of that department's budget.
  4. transitive to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
  5. transitive 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. intransitive To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
  8. intransitive To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize. Out of a Greediness to get both, he Chops at the Shadow, and Loses the Substance.
  9. intransitive To interrupt; with in or out. This fellow […]interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
  10. Hong Kong, transitive To stab. A man had chopped a Sanitary Department coolie to death after an argument about money, Supreme Court was told today.
  11. transitive To remove the final character from (a text string).
  12. slang, transitive To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine. He chopped out a fat line.
  13. slang, transitive To have sex with. One of my bredrins is saying, what's the oldest ting he can chop?

chop²

  • /t͡ʃɒp/ UK
  • /t͡ʃɑp/ US

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

Uncertain, perhaps a variant of chap (“cheap”). Compare Middle English copen (“to buy”), Dutch kopen (“to buy”).

verb chops · chopping · chopped

  1. obsolete To exchange, to barter; to swap. this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of commuting our penance.
  2. To chap or crack.
  3. To vary or shift suddenly. The wind chops about.
  4. obsolete To twist words. Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
  5. To converse, discuss, or speak with another.

noun chops

  1. A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.

chop³

  • /t͡ʃɒp/ UK
  • /t͡ʃɑp/ US

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

From Middle English choppe (“jaw, jawbone”), related to Middle English cheppe (“one side of the jaw, chap”). Perhaps ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.

noun chops · chap

  1. in plural 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. East Chop

chop⁴

  • /t͡ʃɒp/ UK
  • /t͡ʃɑp/ US

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Hindi छाप (chāp, “stamp”). Closely related to the similarly descended Malay word cap, which likely reinforced the English usage within the Malay world.

noun chops · chap · chapp · chope

  1. Brunei, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial 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. Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, broadly, colloquial The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
  3. A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand. silk of the first chop
  4. A licence or passport that has been sealed.
  5. A complete shipment. a chop of tea

verb chops · chopping · chopped · chap · chapp

  1. Brunei, Hong Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial 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.

chop⁵

  • /t͡ʃɒp/ UK
  • /t͡ʃɑp/ US

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

Shortening.

noun chops

  1. Internet An IRC channel operator. IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops" — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.

chop⁶

  • /t͡ʃɒp/ UK
  • /t͡ʃɑp/ US

Rhymes with -ɒp

Where it comes from

Shortening of chopper.

verb chops · chopping · chopped

  1. informal To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter. We chopped back to the base.

CHOP⁷

noun CHOPs

  1. abbreviation, acronym, uncountable 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. abbreviation, acronym, countable, uncountable Acronym of change of operational control.change of operational control

proper noun

  1. abbreviation, acronym Acronym of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.Children's Hospital of Philadelphia […] said study co-leader William H. Peranteau, MD, a pediatric and fetal surgeon in CHOP's Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment.
  2. abbreviation, acronym, historical Acronym of Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.Capitol Hill Occupied Protest In its earliest days, the CHOP had support from some city officials, including Durkan, who at the time described a "block party atmosphere" and referenced the "Summer of Love" in a CNN interview.

Chop⁸

  • /t͡ʃɒp/ UK
  • /t͡ʃɑp/ US

Where it comes from

Derived from Ukrainian Чоп (Čop)

proper noun

  1. historical A miskrada in Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, established in 1957, disestablished in June 2020.
  2. An urban hromada of Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, established in June 2020.
  3. A railway station in Chop, Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine, opened in December 4, 1872

Talk about this word