1a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the hand:an effective chop to the back of the neck
2a thick slice of meat, especially pork or lamb, adjacent to and often including a rib:he lived on liver or chops
3Australian/NZ informal a person’s share of something.
4 [mass noun]North American crushed or ground grain used as animal feed:the pile of chop was dropped into the calves' feeder
5 [in singular] the broken motion of water, owing to the action of the wind against the tide:we started our run into a two-foot chop
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1 [with object] cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife:they chopped up the pulpit for firewoodfinely chop 200g of skipjack tuna
(chop something off) remove something by cutting:a paper guillotine chopped off all four fingers
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
strike (something) with a short heavy blow, as if cutting at something:Benson chopped the ball onto the stumps
2abolish or reduce the size of (something) in a way regarded as ruthless:their training courses are to be chopped
the chop
British informal
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
chop logic
argue in a tiresomely pedantic way; quibble.
[mid 16th century: from a dialect use of chop meaning 'bandy words']
