chop-chop
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chop-chop
Where it comes from
From Chinese Pidgin English, from Cantonese 速速 (cuk1 cuk1, “quick”). Recorded in English since the 1830s (see citations for adverb). Recorded as a Chinese term in 1795.
interjection chop chop
- Used to urge someone to do something quickly. ‘Now you get down to the bathroom an’ I’ll hop ashore and organise it. Chop-chop.’
adverb chop chop
- Quickly. "Well, more soon, more better; sendee chop chop," I told him.
noun chop chop
- Tobacco that is produced and sold without excise (tax), and therefore cheap and illegal. We are here today to try and do the impossible: to stop the chop chop industry.
