CHOP | Meaning, Definition In Cambridge English Dictionary

Meaning of chop in English chopverb [ T ] uk /tʃɒp/ us /tʃɑːp/ -pp-

chop verb [T] (CUT)

Add to word list Add to word list B2 to cut something into pieces with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument: He was chopping wood in the yard. Add some fresh parsley, finely chopped.chop something up Chop up the onions and carrots roughly.informal Laura had her hair chopped (= cut) yesterday. to cut something

• cutOuch, I've cut my finger!
• chopHe was chopping vegetables to make a stew.
• sliceSlice the mushrooms and fry them in butter.
• snipShe snipped the corner off the soup packet.
• slitHe slit open the envelope with a knife.
• carveHe carved her name on a tree.

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• Peel the cucumber and chop it into small cubes.
• Peel, core and chop the apples.
• Roughly chop the tomatoes and add to the onions.

Cutting and stabbing

• abrasion
• bayonet
• butcher
• carve
• carving
• chap
• gouging
• hew
• hew something out of something
• impale
• impalement
• saw something up phrasal verb
• scarify
• scissor
• score something out/through phrasal verb
• shave
• shave something off/from something phrasal verb
• shear
• stab
• stabbing

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chop verb [T] (STOP/REDUCE)

If something is chopped in business, it is stopped or reduced: Because of lack of funding many long-term research projects are being chopped. Causing something to end

• abandon
• abandonment
• all good things (must) come to an end idiom
• and have done with it idiom
• be over the hump idiom
• brake
• cure
• freeze
• get something out of the way idiom
• get something over with phrasal verb
• give over phrasal verb
• grind to a halt idiom
• halt
• lid
• slam on the brakes
• snap
• snap out of something phrasal verb
• snuff something out phrasal verb
• stamp on something phrasal verb
• stamp something out phrasal verb

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chop verb [T] (HIT BALL DOWN)

In cricket or baseball, if you chop a ball, you hit it firmly downward: He chopped the ball on to his stumps. I chop the ball in that little funnel right between the third baseman and the shortstop. Cricket

• 12th man
• all out
• all-rounder
• arm ball
• asking rate
• batting
• declaration
• eleven
• hook
• infield
• jaffa
• king pair
• late cut
• leg break
• square leg
• stonewall
• strike rate
• sundries
• switch hit
• tail

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Idiom

chop and change

Phrasal verbs

chop something down chop something off chop something up chopnoun [ C ] uk /tʃɒp/ us /tʃɑːp/

chop noun [C] (MEAT)

a small piece of meat with a bone still in it: a lamb/pork chop   Tan Dao Duy/Moment/Getty Images /GettyImages Cuts of meat

• baby back ribs
• baron of beef
• bavette
• boneless
• bottom round
• filet
• fillet
• fillet steak
• flank steak
• flanken
• rasher
• rib eye
• rib roast
• riblet
• round steak
• T-bone steak
• tenderloin
• tomahawk
• top round
• tournedos

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chop noun [C] (CUT)

an act of cutting something with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument  the chop mainly UK (US usually the axe) the situation in which your job is taken away from you, either because you have done something wrong or as a way of saving money: for the chop If you're late for work again, you'll be for the chop.get the chop Anyone stepping out of line is liable to get the chop.be given the chop Hundreds of workers at the factory have already been given the chop. UK the ending of a factory, school, etc. or plan: be for the chop When the reorganization occurs, the smaller departments will be the first for the chop.face the chop Many of these special schools are facing the chop. Cutting and stabbing

• abrasion
• bayonet
• butcher
• carve
• carving
• chap
• gouging
• hew
• hew something out of something
• impale
• impalement
• saw something up phrasal verb
• scarify
• scissor
• score something out/through phrasal verb
• shave
• shave something off/from something phrasal verb
• shear
• stab
• stabbing

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chop noun [C] (MOUTH)

 chops [ plural ] informal the area of the face surrounding the mouth of a person or an animal: a dog licking its chops See more

chop noun [C] (ABILITY)

 chops [ plural ] informal ability and technical skill, especially in playing a musical instrument or in acting: The players show their jazz chops and modern sensibility. the ability, skill, or experience needed to do something well: She just doesn't have the chops for this demanding role. See more (Definition of chop from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus © Cambridge University Press)

chop | American Dictionary

chopverb [ T ] us /tʃɑp/ -pp-

chop verb [T] (CUT)

Add to word list Add to word list to cut something into pieces with a sharp tool, such as an ax: Cal went out to chop some wood for the fireplace. To chop something off is to separate it from what it was part of by cutting: Chop the ends off the carrots. If you chop up something, you cut it into small pieces: She chopped up some celery for the salad. chopnoun [ C ] us /tʃɑp/

chop noun [C] (MEAT)

a small piece of meat with a bone still in it: a lamb/pork/veal chop (Definition of chop from the Cambridge Academic Content Dictionary © Cambridge University Press)

Examples of chop

chop After chopping, the suspension was passed through a 50 m mesh nylon filter. From the Cambridge English Corpus To facilitate equilibration, seed cotyledons were chopped into c. 1 mm3 pieces. From the Cambridge English Corpus Fish were transferred gently to large covered glass aquaria provided with a continuous flow of fresh seawater and fed fresh chopped fish every 2 days. From the Cambridge English Corpus The hay was chopped and placed in troughs made out ofmetal drums. From the Cambridge English Corpus After harvesting the grain, the crop residues from each plot were chopped into 40 + 60 mm pieces and divided according to treatments. From the Cambridge English Corpus Besides, chopped cane deteriorates more quickly than wholestalk cane, as does burnt cane compared with green cane. From the Cambridge English Corpus The fact that space is not composed of points entails that space does not come already ' chopped up ' into sub-regions. From the Cambridge English Corpus The material was chopped in small fragments after which representative samples were taken for chemical analysis. From the Cambridge English Corpus Ultimately, the columnar vortex pair is literally chopped into thin independent 'pancake' dipoles. From the Cambridge English Corpus Naturally, this question could also be chopped up into finer bits; this is the well-known infinite regress of causation. From the Cambridge English Corpus In other words, the detachment fault is chopped by the steeper normal faults. From the Cambridge English Corpus Immature flukes were recovered from the liver tissue using pepsin digestion after chopping the liver. From the Cambridge English Corpus I could prevent his even chopping off the foot by giving another $1,000 to him. From the Cambridge English Corpus Visually, this is equivalent to chopping off a branch of the network for parent one, and replacing it with a branch from parent two. From the Cambridge English Corpus By decreasing the chopping gap, the light intensity in the spark channels increases while decreasing in the gas diode. From the Cambridge English Corpus See all examples of chop These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors. What is the pronunciation of chop?

Translations of chop

in Chinese (Traditional) 劈, 砍, 剁碎，切碎… See more in Chinese (Simplified) 劈, 砍, 剁碎，切碎… See more in Spanish cortar, picar, chuleta… See more in Portuguese cortar, picar, costeleta… See more in Marathi in Japanese in Turkish in French in Catalan in Dutch in Tamil in Hindi in Gujarati in Danish in Swedish in Malay in German in Norwegian in Urdu in Ukrainian in Telugu in Bengali in Czech in Indonesian in Thai in Vietnamese in Polish in Korean in Italian तोडणे, चिरणे… See more （野菜、肉などを）刻む, （おので木を）たたき切る, 骨付きの肉の切り身、チョップ… See more dilimlemek, parçalamak, kesmek… See more hacher, côtelette [feminine], coup [masculine]… See more picar, tallar en trossos petits, tallar… See more hakken, fijnhakken, karbonade… See more கோடாரி, கத்தி அல்லது பிற கூர்மையான கருவிகளைக் கொண்டு எதையாவது துண்டுகளாக வெட்ட… See more (कुल्हाड़ी, छूरी या अन्य किसी धार वाली वस्तु से) छोटे टुकड़े करना… See more કાપો, કુહાડી, છરી અથવા અન્ય કોઈ તીક્ષ્ણ વસ્તુ સાથે ટુકડાઓમાં કાપો… See more hakke, kotelet, kæbe… See more hacka, hugga, kotlett… See more cincang, sepotong, rahang… See more (zer-)hacken, das Kotelett, die Kiefer (pl.)… See more hakke, hugge, kotelett [masculine]… See more کاٹنا, ٹکڑے ٹکڑے کرنا کسی تیز دھار والے اوزار سے… See more рубати, відбивна котлета, щелепа… See more చిన్న ముక్కలుగా కోయడం… See more ছুরি দিয়ে কুচিকুচি বা মোটা করে কাটা… See more (roz/na)sekat, kotleta, čelisti… See more mencincang, daging iga, rahang… See more หั่น, ชิ้นเนื้อที่หั่นบางๆ, กรามหรือฟันของสัตว์… See more chặt nhỏ, miếng thịt sườn, hàm động vật… See more siekać, rąbać, kotlet… See more 자르다, 베다, 갈빗살… See more tritare, tagliare, braciola… See more Need a translator?

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More meanings of chop

• chop-chop
• chop shop
• chop suey
• chop block
• chump chop
• karate chop
• American chop suey

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• chop something off phrasal verb
• chop something up phrasal verb
• chop something down phrasal verb

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• chop and change idiom

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  • Verb 
    • chop (CUT)
    • chop (STOP/REDUCE)
    • chop (HIT BALL DOWN)
  • Noun 
    • chop (MEAT)
    • chop (CUT)
    • the chop
    • chop (MOUTH)
    • chops
    • chop (ABILITY)
    • chops
• American   
  • Verb 
    • chop (CUT)
  • Noun 
    • chop (MEAT)
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