chop

  • 41chop — I n. cut of meat 1) a chump (BE); lamb; mutton; pork; veal chop blow 2) a karate chop II v. (C) chop some wood for me; or: chop me some wood * * * [tʃɒp] lamb mutton or: chop me some wood pork veal chop (C) …

    Combinatory dictionary

  • 42chop — 01. Can you [chop] some more wood for the fire? 02. I m going to [chop] up some onions to put in the stir fry. 03. The city had to [chop] down a tree that was growing under the power lines. 04. Why don t you [chop] up the vegetables while I grate …

    Grammatical examples in English

  • 43chop up — v. 1) (C) chop up some wood for me; or (colloq.): chop me up some wood 2) (D; tr.) to chop up into (he chopped the log up into firewood) * * * or (colloq.) : chop up me up some wood (C) chop up some wood for me (D; tr.) to chop up into (he chop… …

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  • 44chop — I. verb (chopped; chopping) Etymology: Middle English chappen, choppen more at chap Date: 14th century transitive verb 1. a. to cut into or sever usually by repeated blows of a sharp instrument b. to cut into pieces often used with up …

    New Collegiate Dictionary

  • 45chop —    1. to kill    Originally standard English, meaning to kill an animal by a blow from the hand. When killing humans, the blow is with a sharp instrument:     Unless he chopped us both (which seemed far fetched, pirate and Old Etonian though he… …

    How not to say what you mean: A dictionary of euphemisms

  • 46chop — [tʃɒp] verb [T] I to cut something such as food or wood into pieces Chop the meat into small cubes.[/ex] • chop and change British informal to keep changing from one thing to another[/ex] chop sth down chop sth off chop sth up II noun [C] chop… …

    Dictionary for writing and speaking English

  • 47chop — {{Roman}}I.{{/Roman}} noun ADJECTIVE ▪ lamb, mutton (esp. BrE), pork, veal ▪ loin ▪ pork loin chops VERB + CHOP …

    Collocations dictionary

  • 48chop — Synonyms and related words: Saratoga chop, Vandyke, alter, ameliorate, amputate, ax, bang, bank, barley, bash, bat, be changed, be converted into, be renewed, beam, beating, belt, biff, billow, bird seed, bisect, blaze, blow, bonk, border, bore,… …

    Moby Thesaurus

  • 49chop — There are three distinct words chop in English. The oldest [14] originally meant ‘trade, barter’, but it is now found only in the phrase chop and change. It appears to come from Old English cēapian ‘trade’, which is related to English cheap. Chop …

    The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins

  • 50chop — {{11}}chop (1) to cut, mid 14c., perhaps from O.Fr. (Picard) choper (O.Fr. coper to cut, cut off, 12c., Mod.Fr. couper), from V.L. *cuppare to behead, from a root meaning head, but influenced in O.Fr. by couper to strike. Related: Chopped;… …

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