chopverb [ T ]
uk/tʃɒp/us/tʃɑːp/-pp-B2 to cut something into pieces with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument:
If something is chopped in business, it is stopped or reduced:
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- 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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Phrasal verb(s)
chopnoun [ C ]
uk/tʃɒp/us/tʃɑːp/chop noun [ C ] (MEAT)
a small piece of meat with a bone still in it:
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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
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:
the ending of a factory, school, etc. or plan:
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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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chop noun [ C ] (MOUTH)
[ plural ] informal the area of the face surrounding the mouth of a person or an animal:
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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)
ability and technical skill, especially in playing a musical instrument:
the ability, skill, or experience needed to do something well:
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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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