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Definition of Chop-chop
1. Adverb. With rapid movements. "He works quickly"
Definition of Chop-chop
1. Interjection. (non-gloss definition Used to urge someone to do something quickly) ¹
2. Noun. (Australia informal) Tobacco that is produced and sold without excise (tax), and therefore cheap and illegal. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chop-chop
Literary usage of Chop-chop
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Slang and Its Analogues Past and Present: A Dictionary, Historical and by John Stephen Farmer, William Ernest Henley (1891)
"chop-chop, adv. (pidgin).—Immediately ; quickly. 1878. JAS. PAYN, By Proxy, ch.
ii. 1 Chow-chow is not fish, but food,' explained Conway, laughing, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"chop-chop (pidgin), quick, quickly, make haste, look sharp. Cantonese, k&p - kdp;
Mandarin, kip-kip. " In the Northern dialects kwai-kwai, quick, quick, ..."
3. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"The chopping-note is a low-pitched and abrupt note, Bounding like chop, chop,
uttered several times in quick succession, and is intermediate in quality ..."
4. Ordered to China: Letters of Wilbur J. Chamberlin Written from China While by Wilbur J Chamberlin (1903)
"Chop chop" means " quick." If you want a thing done quickly you say " Can do chop
chop ? " " Joss pigeon man " means " clergyman." " Coolie " is workman. ..."
5. Scribners Monthly (1878)
""Chop chop" is " fast," " quickly." The comprador of a slow steamer, the " Man-
chu," always maintained that she could beat the ..."
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