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How to pronounce “chop”
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Pronunciation guide for chop
- Learning goal
- Practice the English pronunciation of chop with real speech in context.
- Available examples
- 8 YouTube examples
- Real speech example
- Jennifer 8. Lee: Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of 16 minutes
fortune cookies, chop suey, the take-out boxes.
- Definition summary
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
Example 1 of 8
How to pronounce chop
Jennifer 8. Lee: Who was General Tso? and other mysteries of 16 minutes

fortune cookies, chop suey, the take-out boxes.
Example Sentences
A Deep Dive Into “chop”
Meaning
- [Noun]
- A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.
- A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.
- (martial arts) 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.
- (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
- (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
- (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
- (dated) A crack or cleft; a chap.
- (uncountable) Aircraft turbulence.
- (UK, slang) Cocaine.
- (MLE, slang) A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
- [Verb]
- (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
- (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
- (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
- (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.
- (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.
- (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players. (Can we add an example for this sense?)
- (intransitive) To make a quick, heavy stroke or a series of strokes, with or as with an ax.
- (intransitive) To do something suddenly with an unexpected motion; to catch or attempt to seize.
- (intransitive) To interrupt; with in or out.
- (transitive, Hong Kong) To stab.
- (computing, transitive, Perl) To remove the final character from (a text string).
- (slang, transitive) To manipulate or separate out a line of cocaine.
- (slang, transitive) To have sex with.
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