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English
Pronunciation
Etymology 1
From Middle English choppen , chappen ( “ to chop ” ) , of uncertain origin, possibly onomatopoeic , or a variant of chap ( “ to become cracked ” ) .
Cognate with Scots chap ( “ to chop ” ) . Compare also Saterland Frisian kappe , kapje ( “ to hack; chop; lop off ” ) , Dutch kappen ( “ to chop, cut, hew ” ) , German Low German kappen ( “ to cut off; clip ” ) , German kappen ( “ to cut; clip ” ) , German dialectal chapfen , kchapfen ( “ to chop into small pieces ” ) , Albanian copë ( “ piece, chunk ” ) , Old English *ċippian (in forċippian ( “ to cut off ” ) ). Perhaps related to chip .
Noun
chop (countable and uncountable , plural chops )
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.
A blow with an axe , cleaver , or similar implement .
It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
( martial arts ) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
A karate chop .
Ocean waves , generally caused by wind , distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
( poker ) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop .
( informal , with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack .
( Australia , New Zealand ) A woodchopping competition.
1924 October 6, The Examiner , Launceston, page 2, column 6:E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]
( dated ) A crack or cleft ; a chap .
( uncountable ) Aircraft turbulence .
Quotations
Synonyms
Descendants
Translations
cut of meat
Afrikaans: tjop
Armenian: չալաղաջ ( čʻalaġaǰ )
Basque: txuleta
Bulgarian: пържола (bg) f ( pǎržola ) , котлет m ( kotlet )
Catalan: costella (ca) f , llonza f
Chinese:
Mandarin: 排骨 (zh) ( páigǔ )
Danish: kotelet c
Dutch: karbonade (nl) c
Esperanto: kotleto
Estonian: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: kyljys (fi)
French: côtelette (fr) f
Galician: costeleta (gl) f
Georgian: please add this translation if you can
German: Kotelett (de) n , Rippchen (de) n
Greek: παϊδάκι (el) n ( païdáki ) , κοψίδι (el) n ( kopsídi ) , μπριζόλα (el) f ( brizóla )
Italian: costoletta (it) , braciola (it) f , taglio (it) m , costata (it) f
Japanese: チョップ (ja) ( choppu ) , コートレット ( kōtoretto )
Korean: 토막고기 ( tomakgogi ) , 토막 (ko) ( tomak )
Latin: praecīsum n
Norman: côtelette f
Norwegian:
Bokmål: kotelett m
Nynorsk: kotelett m
Persian: please add this translation if you can
Polish: kotlet (pl) m , bitka (pl) f
Portuguese: corte (pt) m , posta (pt) f
Romanian: cotlet (ro) n
Russian: отбивная (ru) ( otbivnaja )
Somali: please add this translation if you can
Spanish: chuleta (es) f , tajada (es) f
Swedish: kotlett (sv) c
Tarifit: taɣezdist f
Turkish: please add this translation if you can
Vietnamese: lát (vi)
blow with an axe or similar utensil
martial arts: type of blow
poker: result of a tied poker hand
dismissal, especially from employment
Translations to be checked
Verb
chop (third-person singular simple present chops , present participle chopping , simple past and past participle chopped )
Chopping garlic
( transitive ) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
chop wood ; chop an onion
( transitive ) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
Chop off his head.
( transitive , figurative ) To separate or divide.
We should chop off some of that department's budget.
( transitive ) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
( transitive , baseball ) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
( poker ) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
( intransitive ) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
( intransitive ) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
( intransitive ) To interrupt ; with in or out .
1550 , Hugh Latimer , Sermon Preached before King Edward :This fellow [ …] interrupted the sermon, even suddenly chopping in.
( transitive , Hong Kong ) To stab .
1959 June 8, China Mail , page 10 :A man had chopped a Sanitary Department coolie to death after an argument about money, Supreme Court was told today.
( computing , transitive , Perl ) To remove the final character from (a text string ).
Coordinate term: chomp
( slang , transitive ) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
He chopped out a fat line.
Translations
to cut into pieces
Assamese: কুটা ( kuta ) , থহা ( thoha ) ( Eastern ) , থাহা ( thaha ) ( Central ) , কঁচা ( kõsa )
Azerbaijani: doğramaq (az) , çapmaq , xırdalamaq (az)
Bulgarian: накълцвам (bg) ( nakǎlcvam ) , цепя (bg) ( cepja ) , сека (bg) ( seka ) , отсичам (bg) ( otsičam )
Burmese: တုံး (my) ( tum: )
Cherokee: ᎦᎷᏯᏍᎦ ( galuyasga )
Chinese:
Cantonese: 斬 / 斩 ( zaam2 )
Mandarin: 砍 (zh) ( kǎn )
Danish: hakke
Esperanto: haki , haketi
Finnish: hakata (fi) , pilkkoa (fi) , paloitella (fi)
French: hacher (fr) , découper (fr) , couper (fr)
Friulian: taiâ
Galician: picar (gl)
Georgian: ჩეხა ( čexa )
German: hacken (de) , zerhacken (de) , abhacken (de) , schlagen (de)
Greek: λιανίζω (el) ( lianízo ) , τεμαχίζω (el) ( temachízo ) , πελεκώ (el) ( pelekó )
Hungarian: felvág (hu) , darabol (hu) , aprít (hu)
Ingrian: leikata , pilkkoa , hakata ( dialectal )
Italian: tagliare (it)
Korean: 썰다 (ko) ( sseolda )
Latgalian: škaļdeit
Latvian: skaldīt
Luxembourgish: hachéieren (lb)
Maori: tokitoki , tuatua
Ngazidja Comorian: urema
Ottoman Turkish: طوغرامق ( doğramak )
Polish: siekać (pl) , kroić (pl) , pokroić (pl)
Portuguese: picar (pt) , decepar (pt)
Romanian: toca (ro)
Sorbian:
Lower Sorbian: rubaś impf
Spanish: cortar (es) , picar (es) , tajar (es) , trocear (es) , retazar (es) , retacear (es) , tronzar (es)
Tagalog: hapakin
Tetum: taa
Thai: please add this translation if you can
Tocharian B: kaut-
Tày: bác , hẳm
Vietnamese: chặt (vi) , chém (vi)
Záparo: achichanu
to sever with an axe or similar
to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
baseball: to hit the ball downward
Translations to be checked
Derived terms
Etymology 2
Uncertain, perhaps a variant of chap ( “ cheap ” ) . Compare Middle English copen ( “ to buy ” ) , Dutch kopen ( “ to buy ” ) .
Verb
chop (third-person singular simple present chops , present participle chopping , simple past and past participle chopped )
( obsolete ) To exchange , to barter ; to swap .
1644 , John Milton , Areopagitica :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.
To chap or crack .
( nautical ) To vary or shift suddenly.
The wind chops about.
( obsolete ) To twist words.
1625 , Francis [Bacon] , “Of Judicature”, in The Essayes , 3rd edition, London: Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, →OCLC :Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.
To converse, discuss, or speak with another.
Derived terms
Noun
chop (plural chops )
A turn of fortune ; change ; a vicissitude .
Derived terms
Etymology 3
From Middle English choppe ( “ jaw, jawbone ” ) , related to Middle English cheppe ( “ one side of the jaw, chap ” ) . Perhaps ultimately related to Etymology 1 above.
Noun
chop (plural chops )
( chiefly in the plural ) A jaw of an animal .
A movable jaw or cheek , as of a vice .
The land at each side of the mouth of a river , harbour , or channel .
East Chop
West Chop
References
“chop ”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2016 , →ISBN .
“chops ”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language , 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt , 2016 , →ISBN .
Etymology 4
Borrowed from Hindi छाप ( chāp , “ stamp ” ) . Closely related to the similarly descended Malay word cap , which likely reinforced the English usage within the Malay world .
Noun
chop (plural chops )
( colloquial , India , Hong Kong , Malaysia , Singapore , Brunei ) A stamp or seal ; a mark , imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.
( colloquial , by extension, Malaysia , Singapore , Brunei ) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
A mark indicating nature , quality , or brand .
silk of the first chop
A license or passport that has been sealed.
A complete shipment .
a chop of tea
Derived terms
Descendants
→ Cantonese: chop ( cop1 )
→ Macanese: chop
Verb
chop (third-person singular simple present chops , present participle chopping , simple past and past participle chopped )
( transitive , colloquial , India , Hong Kong , Malaysia , Singapore , Brunei ) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark , impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity .
To seal a license or passport.
Derived terms
References
Etymology 5
Shortening.
Noun
chop (plural chops )
( Internet ) An IRC channel operator .
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.
Synonyms
Etymology 6
Shortening of chopper .
Noun
chop (plural chops )
( informal ) To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
We chopped back to the base.
See also
Chinese
Etymology
From English chop .
Pronunciation
Noun
chop
( Hong Kong Cantonese ) chop ( stamp; seal ) (Classifier : 個 / 个 c )
郵chop / 邮chop [Cantonese ] ― jau4 cop1 ― postal seal
Verb
chop
( Hong Kong Cantonese ) to stamp ; to seal
Macanese
Etymology
Borrowed from English chop , ultimately from Hindi छाप ( chāp , “ stamp ” ) . Most likely also influenced by Cantonese chop . Sense 2 derives from the absent professor being recorded with a stamp, i.e. a chop , in a register.
Noun
chop
official licence
( slang ) an absent professor or teacher
Hoje tivemos chope de matemática. Today our mathematics professor was absent. (literally, “Today we had chop of mathematics. ”)
O Dr. F. deu chope . Dr. F. is absent. (literally, “Dr. F. gave chop . ”)
Usage notes
The examples for sense 2 are in Portuguese; the Macanese equivalents would roughly be Hoze nôs têm chop di matemática and Dr. F. (já) dâ chop respectively.
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
www.macaneselibrary.org , 2024 August 24 (last accessed)
Nigerian Pidgin
Etymology
(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium .)
Verb
chop
eat
spend
Silesian
chłop ( Southern Silesian )
Etymology
Inherited from Old Polish chłop .
Pronunciation
IPA (key ) : /ˈxɔp/
Rhymes: -ɔp
Syllabification: chop
Noun
chop m pers
man , male
husband
Synonym: mōnż
snowman
Synonym: śniygulŏk
Declension
Further reading
chop_chlop in dykcjonorz.eu
chop in silling.org
Bogdan Kallus (2020 ) “chop”, in Słownik Gōrnoślōnskij Gŏdki , IV edition, Chorzów: Pro Loquela Silesiana, →ISBN , page 260
Aleksandra Wencel (2023 ) “chop ”, in Dykcjůnôrz ślų̊sko-polski , page 114
Barbara Podgórska, Adam Podgóski (2008 ) “chop”, in Słownik gwar śląskich [A dictionary of Silesian lects ], Katowice: Wydawnictwo KOS, →ISBN , page 55