Meaning of chop-shop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. To cut apart a car in a chop shop, either to sell as parts or to alter its appearance.
   transitive
2. To cut something apart and restructure it.
   figuratively, transitive

Examples

“Look, the car will be clean. If you're not comfortable, you could chop-shop it.”

“Sleeker, faster "muscle cars" were the rage, and so when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz updated Batman in 1964, the Batmobile—the tank-like sedan with a bat-head grille—was chop-shopped into a sportier model.”

“On the concrete floor were distributed groups of fenders, doors, sections of roof, hoods, and other more or less "prime cuts" of chop-shopped automobiles carefully sorted by finish and hue, ...”

“He's considered something of a scold on Wall Street, a hectoring moralist who rails against the business practices of his rivals— an old-economy guy known more for building businesses than chop-shopping them for parts, a brilliant crank with a nearly unbroken string of successful investments.”

“Plus I moved the paragraph from its original place in the manuscript to another place hundreds of pages away. In short, I chop-shopped it.”

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