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Definition of Chop up

1. Verb. Cut into pieces. "The chefs chop up the vegetables"; "Chop meat"

Definition of Chop up

1. Verb. (transitive of meat, flesh, corpses) to cut or chop in order to separate ¹

2. Verb. (transitive) to separate, divide something that was considered whole ¹

3. Verb. (transitive) to cause a body of water to become choppy ¹

4. Verb. (music) To convert a sampled audio file into short segments ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chop Up

Literary usage of Chop up

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. From Studio to Stage: Reminiscences of Weedon Grossmith by Weedon Grossmith (1913)
"You don't want 'em to chop up!" Penny, fairly equal to the occasion, said, " Maybe we might chop 'em up or maybe we might n't, but that old rubbish is only ..."

2. A Zulu-English Dictionary with Notes on Pronunciation, a Revised Orthography by Alfred T. Bryant (1905)
"with a clear chopping blow; hence, chop up, as a slaughtered ox by chopping the bone- joints ... chop up; Sw. kata, ..."

3. The Table: How to Buy Food, how to Cook it and how to Serve it by Alexander Filippini (1889)
"Finely chop up, as fine as hashed potatoes, ... chop up the bones into fine pieces ; place them in a saucepan with one medium-sized, sound onion cut into ..."

4. A Cyclopædic Dictionary of the Mang'anja Language Spoken in British Central by David Clement Ruffelle Scott (1892)
"... ku, то 'imp, HACK, as bones, meat ; to chop up ; ku ... &c., to chop a bone, to chop up fish poison. ..."

5. "Aunt Babette's" Cook Book: Foreign and Domestic Receipts for the Household by Bertha F. Kramer (1889)
"When soft, remove from the soup and chop up quite fine. Heat a spoonful of goose fat or butter in a spider; chop up an onion very fine and add to the heated ..."

6. A Complete Handbook for the Sanitary Troops of the U.S. Army and Navy and by Charles Field Mason (1917)
"chop up the meat and vegetables thoroughly. Mix well. ... chop up the beef. Add the bacon fat or beef fat, and add sufficient water or soup stock to moisten ..."

7. Good Words by Norman Macleod (1880)
"Put half a pint of haricots, previously soaked, into a stewpan, chop up an onion, some salt, and boil gently for three hours, rs much water only as is ..."

8. The Dinner Year-book by Marion Harland (1878)
"chop up an onion, a good sized one, and put in it. ... chop up some parsley fine and add. When the barley is very soft, and the broth has boiled down ..."

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