chop
chop / chäp/ • v. (chopped, chop·ping) [tr.] cut (something) into small pieces with repeated sharp blows using an ax or knife. ∎ (chop something off) remove by cutting: they chopped off all her hair. ∎ cut through the base of (something, esp. a tree) with blows from an ax or similar implement, in order to fell it: the boy chopped down eight trees | [intr.] the men were chopping at the undergrowth with machetes. ∎ strike (a ball) with a short heavy blow, as if cutting at something. ∎ (usu. be chopped) abolish or reduce the size or extent of (something) in a way regarded as brutally sudden: their training courses are to be chopped.• n. 1. a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the hand.2. a thick slice of meat, esp. pork or lamb, adjacent to, and typically including, a rib.3. crushed or ground grain used as animal feed.4. [in sing.] the broken motion of water, typically due to the action of the wind against the tide: we started our run into a two-foot chop.