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noun

chopsticks n. (singular chopstick)

A pair of slender sticks made of wood, ivory, plastic, etc., used chiefly by the Chinese and Japanese to lift food into the mouth while dining; also commonly used around the world by persons of Oriental heritage or in restaurants serving oriental food.

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Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Chopsticks" Quotes from Famous Books

... proved a very jolly meal, now that they were sure Tad was all right. Then, again, the beans and bacon were pronounced excellent by each of them, and Stacy had made fully as good time with his crude chopsticks as had the others ...

— The Pony Rider Boys in the Ozarks • Frank Gee Patchin

... passing me, and going on to her, and coming back to me again, and dropping furtively upon the knitting. What the knitting was, I don't know, not being learned in that art; but it looked like a net; and as she worked away with those Chinese chopsticks of knitting-needles, she showed in the firelight like an ill-looking enchantress, baulked as yet by the radiant goodness opposite, but getting ready for a cast of ...

— David Copperfield • Charles Dickens