chop1

verb (chops, chopping, chopped)

• 1 [with object] cut (something) into pieces with repeated sharp blows of an axe or knife:they chopped up the pulpit for firewood finely chop 200g of skipjack tuna
• (chop something off) remove something by cutting:a paper guillotine chopped off all four fingers
• cut through the base of (a tree or similar plant) with blows from an axe or other implement, in order to fell it:the boy chopped down eight trees
• strike (something) with a short heavy blow, as if cutting at something:Benson chopped the ball onto the stumps

• 2abolish or reduce the size of (something) in a way regarded as ruthless:their training courses are to be chopped

noun

• 1a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the hand:an effective chop to the back of the neck

• 2a thick slice of meat, especially pork or lamb, adjacent to and often including a rib: he lived on liver or chops

• 3Australian/NZ informal a person’s share of something.

• 4 [mass noun] North American crushed or ground grain used as animal feed: the pile of chop was dropped into the calves' feeder

• 5 [in singular] the broken motion of water, owing to the action of the wind against the tide:we started our run into a two-foot chop