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Meaning of chop | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2 Frequent
t͡ʃɒp

Definitions

  1. A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
  2. A jaw of an animal.
    in-plural
  3. A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
    countable, uncountable
  4. 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.
    Brunei, Hong-Kong, India, Malaysia, Singapore, colloquial
  5. An IRC channel operator.
    Internet
  6. A city in Uzhhorod Raion, Zakarpattia Oblast, Ukraine.
  7. To fly a helicopter or be flown in a helicopter.
    informal
  8. a chemotherapy regimen used in the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma, consisting of Cyclophosphamide, Hydroxydaunorubicin (also called doxorubicin or adriamycin), Oncovin (vincristine) and Prednisone or Prednisolone
    abbreviation, acronym, uncountable
  9. Acronym of Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of
  10. A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
  11. The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.
    Brunei, Malaysia, Singapore, broadly, colloquial
  12. A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
    countable, uncountable
  13. Acronym of change of operational control.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, countable, uncountable
  14. Acronym of Capitol Hill Occupied Protest.
    abbreviation, acronym, alt-of, historical
  15. The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
  16. A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
  17. A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
    countable, uncountable
  18. A licence or passport that has been sealed.
  19. Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
    countable, uncountable
  20. A complete shipment.
  21. A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
    countable, uncountable
  22. Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
    countable, informal, uncountable, with-definite-article
  23. A woodchopping competition.
    Australia, New-Zealand, countable, uncountable
  24. A crack or cleft; a chap.
    countable, dated, uncountable
  25. Aircraft turbulence.
    uncountable
  26. Cocaine.
    UK, countable, slang, uncountable
  27. A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
    Multicultural-London-English, countable, slang, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية القطعة ضلع
Azərbaycanca çapmaq doğramaq xırdalamaq
Български отсичам пържола сека цепя
Català costella llonza
Dansk hakke
Esperanto haki kotleto
Euskara txuleta
فارسی خرد کردن
עברית צלע
Magyar csap felvág
Հայերեն չալաղաջ
ქართული ჩეხა
한국어 썰다 코토레타 토막 토막고기
Kurdî brî ça ça çare çop lat
Latina praecisum
Lëtzebuergesch hachéieren
Lingála kete
मराठी चोप
မြန်မာဘာသာ တုံး
Nederlands karbonade
Português corte decepar picar posta talhada
Română cotlet tocă
Русский отбивная Чоп
Slovenčina cop
Shqip bri ca çare copë
Svenska hugg kotlett slag svallvåg
Türkçe pirzola
Українська котлета Чоп
Tiếng Việt chất chém lát

Examples

“I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.”
“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.”
“I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.”
“It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.”
“A karate chop.”
“With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.”
“E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]”
“It's peak when the mandem spotty I gonna need more than a dot-dot Capisce, got a problem for swinging this chop?”
“East Chop”
“West Chop”
“silk of the first chop”
“a chop of tea”
“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.”
“We chopped back to the base.”
“[…] said study co-leader William H. Peranteau, MD, a pediatric and fetal surgeon in CHOP's Center for Fetal Diagnosis and Treatment.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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