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A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 18:
Of the two fried chops served him for breakfast he ate one and gave Edmund the other, and put a buttered sandwich of bread in his pocket against the accidents of travel.
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to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
baseball: to hit the ball downward
poker: to divide the pot
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this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of commuting our penance.
Borrowed from Hindiछाप(chāp, “stamp”). Closely related to the similarly descended Malay word cap, which likely reinforced the English usage within the Malay world.
1996, Peter Ludlow, High Noon on the Electronic Frontier, page 404:
IRC supports mechanisms for the enforcement of acceptable behaviour on IRC. Channel operators — "chanops" or "chops" — have access to the /kick command, which throws a specified user out of the given channel.
Borrowed from Englishchop, ultimately from Hindiछाप(chāp, “stamp”). Most likely also influenced by Cantonesechop. Sense 2 derives from the absent professor being recorded with a stamp, i.e. a chop, in a register.
Hoze nôs têm chop di matemática.(“Today our maths prof wasn't here. // 今天我們數學老師沒來。// Hoje o nosso profe de matemática estava ausente.”)
References
Batalha, Graciete Nogueira (1988) “chope”, in Glossário do dialecto macaense: notas linguísticas, etnográficas e folclóricas [Glossary of the Macanese dialect: linguistic, ethnographic and folkloric notes], Macau: Instituto Cultural de Macau, page 404
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