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the satisfying violence of turning one thing into many smaller things
means To cut something into pieces with quick, forceful strokes of a blade or knife.
from From Middle English 'choppen,' to cut with a blow — a word that sounds like the thing it does, the blunt thwack of edge meeting board. It's bound up with 'chap' (as in chapped lips, skin split open) and the older sense of a cutting stroke. The same restless root gives us 'chops' (the jaws that do the chewing) and the 'chop' in chop suey, which is actually a separate borrowing from Cantonese — a happy coincidence of sound, not a shared ancestor.
- karate myth
- the karate chop is mostly Hollywood theatrics
- music slang
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- stock market
- choppy trading wrecks more traders than crashes do
- food word
- pork chop named for the chopping cut, not the action
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- chopper nicknamed for its chopping rotor sound
karate kid crane kick — daniel larusso defeats johnny lawrence in the 1984 all valley tournament with this signature move
wushu chop — a striking technique used in chinese martial arts competitions and demonstrations
pork chop — most common culinary cut from pig loin, staple protein in american and european cuisine