chop

Examples

• All

• You gotta stop busting my chops.

  Bullet to the Head (2012)

• Any audience, any stage, just get out there, build up your chops, and who knows?

  Weird: The Al Yankovic Story (2022)

• Joe, you got the chops.

  The Exorcism (2024)

• Either way, you'll want to have some business chops to know how to keep moving.

  Blog text (4)

• No Renaissance man is complete without musical chops, and Mr. Garmey had those, too.

  Blog text (9)

• Jesse Jackson, whom I voted for twice because he had the chops, ran as a serious African-American candidate.

  Blog text (15)

• But they're licking their chops.

  The Wild (2006)

• Girl's got chops.

  Up Close & Personal (1996)

• I'd prefer to see Duncan Jones or someone else with dramatic chops like Andrew Dominik.

  Blog text (18)

• Every actor needs to practice regularly to develop their chops and improve their performance skills.

Synonyms

C

chops

vschop

• UK

42 3.8

The mouth or jaws used for eating

refers more to the jaw or cheek and is used informally

Idioms

C

chop-chop

• Archaic

30 8.1

To tell someone to hurry in a quick way

Compounds

L

lamb chop

22 2.1

A small cut of lamb meat with a bone, usually cooked and eaten

C

chop shop

• NSFW

12 9.3

A garage where thieves take stolen cars to remove parts

C

chop suey

5 3.4

A Chinese-style dish of meat or fish and vegetables stir-fried and served with rice

M

mutton chop

3 8.2

Facial hair where long sideburns run down the face in front of the ears

C

chop-shop

• NSFW

1 9.3

An illegal garage that takes stolen cars apart to sell the parts

C

chop steak

• US

1 3.5

A flat piece of cooked ground beef served without a bun, often with gravy

M

mutton chop

1 5.1

A cut of meat from an adult sheep, cooked like a steak

C

chop-suey greens

• Philippine

1 6.3

A leafy green vegetable used in Asian cooking like bok choy

C

chop shot

• Jargon

1 6.9

A tennis stroke where you hit the ball downwards so it spins backwards

Surface Forms

Etymology