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   chop

   /tʃɒp/

   verb

   • 1. cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife: "they chopped up the pulpit for firewood" Similar cut upcut into pieceschop upcubedicemincehashchop upcut upcut into pieceshewsplitcleave
   • ▪ remove something by cutting: "they chopped off all her hair" Similar severcut offhack offslice offlop offsaw offshear offremovetake offarchaic:sunderrare:dissever
   • ▪ cut through the base of (a tree or similar plant) with blows from an axe or other implement, in order to fell it: "the boy chopped down eight trees" Similar cut downfellbring downhack downsaw down
   • ▪ strike (something) with a short heavy blow, as if cutting at something: "Benson chopped the ball on to the stumps"
   • 2. abolish or reduce the size of (something) in a way regarded as ruthless: "their training courses are to be chopped" Similar reduce drasticallycutabolishscrapinformal:axeslash

   noun

   • 1. a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the hand: "an effective chop to the back of the neck"
   • 2. dismissal from employment: "hundreds more workers have been given the chop"
   • ▪ cancellation or abolition: "all these projects are destined for the chop"
   • ▪ the action of killing someone or the fact of being killed: "seven men we all knew had got the chop"
   • 3. a thick slice of meat, especially pork or lamb, adjacent to and often including a rib: "he lived on liver or chops"
   • 4. a person's share of something. informal Australian, New Zealand
   • 5. crushed or ground grain used as animal feed: North American "the pile of chop was dropped into the calves' feeder"
   • 6. the broken motion of water, owing to the action of the wind against the tide: "we started our run into a two-foot chop"

   Word Origin late Middle English: variant of chap1.

   Scrabble Points: 11

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