Meaning of chop shop | Babel Free

Definitions

A facility where stolen motor vehicles are disassembled in order to sell their mechanical parts.

US

Examples

“Apparently his stolen car had been taken to a chop shop, as the police only recovered the frame.”

“Once the car is in a chop shop, a skilled cutter can reduce it to salable parts in half an hour to 45 minutes.”

“New York City sports a number of chop shops, as do Chicago, Detroit and most other large metropolitan areas.[…]If they can′t find the right engine, the junkyard may call a chop shop contact to get someone on the street looking for the right make and year.”

““A chop shop disassembles the entire car, so they need a location that is secluded, like a warehouse or a vacant factory — although today′s forfeiture laws tend to discourage chop shops.””

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