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chop
verb- in car and motorcyle customising, to lower the upper portion of the car body or motorcyle by shortening the structural supports US, 1953
- It’s one of its kind and it really looks good / chopped nose and deck with louvers on the hood. — The Beach Boys, Cherry, Cherry Coupe, 1963
- Most of the work he was doing then was modifying Detroit cars–chopping and channeling. Chopping is lowering the top of the car, bringing it nearer to the hood line. — Tom Wolfe, The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby, p. 90, 1965
- The hard core, the outlaw elite, were the Hell’s Angels ... wearing the winged death’s-head on the back of their sleeveless jackets and packing their “mams” behind them on big “chopped hogs.” — Hunter S. Thompson, Hell’s Angels, p. 5, 1966
- Leotis McCarver was undoubtedly black, but his car was a full dress taco wagon: chopped and channeled, lowered, with a candy apple, lime-green paint job with orange and yellow flames covering the hood and weeping halfway back over the sides of the vehicle — James Ellroy, Brown’s Requiem, p. 13, 1981
- It seems I’ve been working on motorcycles all my life, modifying them, chopping them, customizing them to my own taste[.] — Ralph “Sonny” Barger, Hell’s Angel, p. 51, 2000
- to cut a car into pieces US, 1953
- You’re lucky she wasn’t chopped, Mr. Lebowski. Must’ve been a joyride situation. — The Big Lebowski, 1998
- to go into action as a soldier UK
Extended from the sense “to shoot.” - SAS officers, or “Ruperts” as they were known, were usually directed into planning roles, while the “chopping” was done by the troopers and NCOs. — Chris Ryan, The Watchman, p. 17, 2001
- to kill someone UK
- We find him, you chop him–finito, end of story. — Chris Ryan, The Watchman, p. 140–141, 2001
- to execute someone by hanging them UK
Prison use, probably dating from the time when the axe was the preferred method of official execution. Capital punishment was abolished in the UK in 1965. - — Paul Tempest, Lag’s Lexicon, 1950
- to shoot someone to death US, 1933
- They were taking the two downtown to the D.A.’s and somebody chopped them. — Mickey Spillane, Kiss Me Deadly, p. 108, 1952
- to approve something US
- We would scramble to do the research and draft an answer. Our superiors would “chop,” or approve, our work and pass it up the ladder. — Richard Marcinko and John Weisman, Rogue Warrior, p. 190, 1992
- to adulterate a powdered drug US, 1970
- You buy, you chop, you mix, you measure, then bag and sell. — Lanre Fehintola, Charlie Says..., p. 14, 2000
- in handball, to add spin to the ball when hitting it US
- — Paul Haber, Inside Handball, p. 65, 1970
- (of dice in a crap game) to pass once and then not pass US
- Don’t count on it, they have been chopping. — N.B. Winkless, The Gambling Times Guide to Craps, p. 92, 1981
- in motor racing, to pull sharply in front of another car US
- — John Lawlor, How to Talk Car, p. 31, 1965
▶ chop and shop
to strip and sell components and parts from a stolen car US- “My Ducati’s probably been chopped and shopped all over the Northeast by now.” — David Baldacci, True Blue, p. 229, 2009
▶ chop it up
to talk with enthusiasm and energy US- — Rick Ayers (Editor), Berkeley High Slang Dictionary, p. 15, 2004
▶ chop sin
to gossip; to talk idly BERMUDA- — Peter A. Smith and Fred M. Barritt, Bermewjan Vurds, 1985
▶ chop ten
to sit with your legs crossed as others work JAMAICA, 1998
Recorded by Richard Allsopp.▶ chop the clock
to reset a vehicle’s mileometer (odometer) to a reduced measure US- You know chopping the clock is a felony. But maybe in the old days sometimes a mechanic, up in the dasboard anyway, kind of had his screwdriver slip on the odometer. — John Updike, Rabbit is Rich, p. 116, 1981
- — Angela Devlin, Prison Patter, p. 37, 1996
- Chop the clock: The illegal practice of setting back a car’s odometer. — Robert Genat, The American Car Dealership, p. 99, 1999
▶ chop wood
to drive off a road or motorway into a tree US- — American Speech, p. 268, December 1962: “The language of traffic policemen”
▶ chop your gums
to engage in idle talk US- The farmers were chewing the fat in feed and hardware stores, the women were chopping their gums in Five-and-tens and department stores[.] — Jack Kerouac, Letter to Caroline and Paul Blake, p. 143, 16 March 1948
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