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Chop   /tʃɑp/   Listen
Chop

noun
1.
The irregular motion of waves (usually caused by wind blowing in a direction opposite to the tide).
2.
A small cut of meat including part of a rib.
3.
A jaw.
4.
A tennis return made with a downward motion that puts backspin on the ball.  Synonym: chop shot.
5.
A grounder that bounces high in the air.  Synonym: chopper.
verb
(past & past part. chopped; pres. part. chopping)
1.
Cut into pieces.  Synonym: chop up.  "Chop meat"
2.
Move suddenly.
3.
Form or shape by chopping.
4.
Strike sharply, as in some sports.
5.
Cut with a hacking tool.  Synonym: hack.
6.
Hit sharply.



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"Chop" Quotes from Famous Books



... agitated with esteem, and followed us from house to house. There was a different kind of drink to be had with every tune. The natives had acquirements of a pleasant thing in the way of a drink that gums itself to the recollection. They chop off the end of a green cocoanut, and pour in on the juice of it French brandy and other adjuvants. We had ...
— Cabbages and Kings • O. Henry

... it. They said Kelso got some rascally adventurer, some Belgian brute, to insult his son-in-law in public; paid him, sir, to do it, paid him; and that the fellow spitted his man as if he had been a pigeon. The thing was hushed up, but, egad, Kelso ate his chop alone at the club for some time afterwards. He brought his daughter back with him, I was told, and she never spoke to him again. Oh, yes; it was a bad business. The girl died too; died within a year. So ...
— The Picture of Dorian Gray • Oscar Wilde

... thou art yet a Bridegroom, And I will use thee so: thou shalt sit down; Evadne sit, and you Amintor too; This Banquet is for you, sir: Who has brought A merry Tale about him, to raise a laughter Amongst our wine? why Strato, where art thou? Thou wilt chop out with them unseasonably When I ...
— The Maids Tragedy • Francis Beaumont and John Fletcher

... the court of Sartach, staying there for you, till you come backe. Then began the man of God mine interpreter to lament, esteeming himselfe but a dead man. Mine associate also protested, that they should sooner chop off his head, then withdrawe him out of my companie. Moreouer I my selfe saide, that without mine associate I could not goe: and that we stood in neede of two seruants at the least, to attend vpon vs, because, if one should chance to fall sicke, ...
— The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries - Vol. II • Richard Hakluyt

... understanding Do thine own work, and know thyself Effect and performance are not at all in our power Fantastic gibberish of the prophetic canting Folly of gaping after future things Good to be certain and finite, and evil, infinite and uncertain He who lives everywhere, lives nowhere If they chop upon one truth, that carries a mighty report Iimpotencies that so unseasonably surprise the lover Let it be permitted to the timid to hope Light griefs can speak: deep sorrows are dumb Look, you who think the gods have no care of human ...
— Widger's Quotations from The Essays of Montaigne • David Widger


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