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- prone to, or caused by, chopping and changing; changeable; unpredictable; fickle; inconsistent; haphazard; disjointed
- 1894 August 11, "RUGBY" New Zealand Observer, p.5:
- The choppy-changy system adopted by the Selection Committee is, after all, the best thing going for the players themselves, as several who otherwise are chanceless for a cap will forever be enrolled on Auckland's 'roll of honour,' and after all said and done, the winning of the 'cap' is what a lot of our players aim at, and don't care a dump whether they win or no.
- 1981, Zigmunds Skujin̦š, A man in his prime: a novel (Progress) p.281:
- This choppy-changy Maija I was pretty well reconciled to by now.
- 2008 August 29, Vicki "Review: Royworld - 'Brakes'" The Chart Blog (BBC):
- On the downside, it's a blatant rewrite of 'Summer Rain' and has a slightly choppy-changey style to it that doesn't manage to pull it out of MOR territory but does manage to affect the air of it being many songs stuck together, like an advert for a compilation.
- 2012 June 10, Clare Heal, "A lack of circumstance" Sunday Express (London):
- Music composed especially for the occasion went unheard and the choppy-changey editing took us from one celebrity to another when the event really was not about them.
- 2013 May 17, Laura Macbeth, "Lily Allen reveals she's writing third album about nappies while at the Ivor Novello awards" Daily Mirror (London):
- Yep, despite announcing her retirement from music at least twice (while still guesting on tracks with Pro Green, T-Pain and co - so not much of a retirement), Lily proves she's just as choppy changey as the rest of us when it comes to making decisions - but luckily no one really cares when we do this.