EGAVE

chop

About 1.92 uses per million words.

Meaning

  1. noun A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
    I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.
  2. noun A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
    It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.
  3. noun A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
    A karate chop.
  4. noun Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.
  5. noun A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
    With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.
  6. noun Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
  7. noun A woodchopping competition.
  8. noun A crack or cleft; a chap.

Similar words

chopper chop up hack chop shot lard mince mutton broth coupe goblet

Often followed by

the off and it wood suey down up them

Word family

chopped chopping chops

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