chop
/t͡ʃɑp/ noun B2- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib. · I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement. · It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
- 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.
- 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.
- Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- A crack or cleft; a chap.
- Aircraft turbulence.
Plural chops
Phrasal verbs and expressions
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“Talking of axes,” said the Duchess, “chop off her head!”
If the Tin Woodman can chop it down, so that it will fall to the other side, we can walk across it easily.”
He had been thinking what was best to be done, and now he asked the Woodman to chop away the end of the tree that rested on their side of the ditch.
So the Woodman took his axe and began to chop down small trees to make a raft, and while he was busy at this the Scarecrow found on the riverbank a tree full of fine fruit.
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