chop

Chopping garlic

Meanings

A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar utensil.
A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
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.
Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
A woodchopping competition.
A crack or cleft; a chap.
A turn of fortune; change; a vicissitude.
A jaw of an animal.
A movable jaw or cheek, as of a vice.
The land at each side of the mouth of a river, harbour, or channel.
An official stamp or seal, as in China and India.
A mark indicating nature, quality, or brand.
A license or passport that has been sealed.
A complete shipment.
An IRC channel operator.

To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
To sever with an axe or similar implement.
to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.
To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
To interrupt; with in or out.
To remove the final character from (a text string).
To exchange, to barter; to swap.
To chap or crack.
To vary or shift suddenly.
To twist words.
To converse, discuss, or speak with another.

From Middle English choppen, chappen, of uncertain origin. Cognate with Scots chap. Compare Saterland Frisian kappe, kapje, Dutch kappen, German Low German kappen, German kappen, German dialectal chapfen, kchapfen, Danish kappe, Swedish kapa, Albanian copë, Old English *ċippian (in forċippian). Perhaps related to chip.
Of uncertain origin, perhaps a variant of chap. Compare Middle English copen, Dutch kopen.
Perhaps a variant of chap. Compare also Middle English cheppe.
Borrowed from Hindi छाप
Shortening.

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