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单词 chop
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chopverb [ T ]

uk/tʃɒp/us/tʃɑːp/-pp-

B2 to cut something into pieces with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument:

He was chopping wood in the yard.
Add some fresh parsley, finely chopped.
Chop (up) the onions and carrots roughly.
informal Laura had her hair chopped (= cut) yesterday.

If something is chopped in business, it is stopped or reduced:

Because of lack of funding many long-term research projects are being chopped.

More examples

  • Peel the cucumber and chop it into small cubes.
  • Peel, core and chop the apples.
  • Roughly chop the tomatoes and add to the onions.

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Cutting and stabbing

  • abrasion
  • bayonet
  • carve
  • carving
  • chisel
  • cut sth down
  • laceration
  • lance
  • mow
  • nick
  • notch
  • saw sth down
  • scratch
  • slash
  • slice
  • spike
  • transfix
  • trim
  • whittle
  • woodcarving

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Causing something to end

Idiom(s)

chop and change

Phrasal verb(s)

chop sth down
chop sth off

chopnoun [ C ]

uk/tʃɒp/us/tʃɑːp/

chop noun [ C ] (MEAT)

a small piece of meat with a bone still in it:

a lamb/pork chop

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Cuts of meat

  • boneless
  • braising steak
  • brisket
  • chuck steak
  • chump chop
  • flank steak
  • flitch
  • ground beef
  • hamburger
  • jerky
  • loin
  • medallion
  • nugget
  • rasher
  • rib
  • saddle
  • schnitzel
  • silverside
  • sirloin (steak)
  • spare ribs

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chop noun [ C ] (CUT)

an act of cutting something with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument

the chop

mainly UK US usually the axe the situation in which your job is taken away from you, either because you have done something wrong or as a way of saving money:

If you're late for work again, you'll be for the chop.
Anyone stepping out of line is liable to get the chop.
Hundreds of workers at the factory have already been given the chop.

the ending of a factory, school, etc. or plan:

When the reorganization occurs, the smaller departments will be the first for the chop.
Many of these special schools are facing the chop.

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Cutting and stabbing

  • abrasion
  • bayonet
  • carve
  • carving
  • chisel
  • cut sth down
  • laceration
  • lance
  • mow
  • nick
  • notch
  • saw sth down
  • scratch
  • slash
  • slice
  • spike
  • transfix
  • trim
  • whittle
  • woodcarving

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Firing staff
Ends and endings

chop noun [ C ] (MOUTH)

chops

[ plural ] informal the area of the face surrounding the mouth of a person or an animal:

a dog licking its chops
I'll give him a smack in the chops if he doesn't shut up.

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The head & face

  • -cheeked
  • -chinned
  • -faced
  • chin
  • countenance
  • dimple
  • facial
  • facies
  • frontalis
  • hairline
  • mandible
  • nape
  • neck
  • nose
  • nucha
  • nuchal
  • pes anserinus
  • splenius
  • temple
  • temporal

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chop noun [ C ] (ABILITY)

chops [ plural ] mainly US informal

ability and technical skill, especially in playing a musical instrument:

The players show their jazz chops and modern sensibility.

the ability, skill, or experience needed to do something well:

She just doesn't have the chops for this demanding role.

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Playing music

  • accompaniment
  • accompany
  • busk
  • conduct
  • fiddle
  • fingering
  • improvisation
  • interpreter
  • jam
  • music
  • perform
  • raise the roof idiom
  • serenade
  • sight-read
  • strike
  • strum
  • swell
  • tap sth out
  • tune
  • virtuoso

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