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chop shop
noun- a car body repair shop where stolen cars are altered or parts are stripped for sale separately US
- Jimmie (The Bomber) Catuara, 72, was assassinated yesterday in what police called a continuing chop-shop stolen auto parts vendetta. — Washington Post, p. A7, 29 July 1978
- — Bill Reilly, Big Al’s Official Guide to Chicagoese, p. 21, 1982
- Pachoulo owned a piece of a chop shop on Alameda, near Olive Avenue Park over in Burbank, where stolen cars were dismembered with acetylene torches and the parts parceled out for sale. — Robert Campbell, Juice, p. 116, 1988
- The chop shop. Where are the stripped cars? The rolled-back odometers? The part bins? — Gone in 60 Seconds, 2000
- After that, it would either be professionally stripped in a chop shop or dismembered by petty thieves. — Robert Ludlum, The Cassandra Compact, p. 297, 2001
- The only BMWs you see around here are from the chop shop. — Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez, The Dirty Girls Social Club, p. 204, 2003
- an autopsy room US
- Walking into the autopsy room on one occasion, Donald Waltemeyer made the mistake of wishing all the ghouls in the chop shop a fine good morning. — David Simon, Homicide, p. 410, 1991
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