chop something off
chop
noun[ C ]
uk /tʃɒp/ us /tʃɑːp/

chopnoun[C] (MEAT)

a small piece of meat with a bone still in it: 带骨的肉块;排骨
a lamb/pork chop羊／猪排
 
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SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cuts of meat
baby back ribs
baron of beef
bavette
boneless
bottom round
filet
fillet
fillet steak
flank steak
flanken
rasher
rib roast
rib-eye steak
riblet
round steak
T-bone steak
tenderloin
tomahawk
top round
tournedos

chopnoun[C] (CUT)

an act of cutting something with an axe, knife, or other sharp instrument剁；砍；劈；切
 the chop
mainly UK(US usuallythe axe)
the situation in which your job is taken away from you, either because you have done something wrong or as a way of saving money: 解雇;裁员
for the chopIf you're late for work again, you'll be for the chop.你上班再迟到就要被解雇。
get the chopAnyone stepping out of line is liable to get the chop.凡是不守规矩的人都有可能被解雇。
be given the chopHundreds of workers at the factory have already been given the chop.工厂的几百号工人已经被裁掉。
UK
the ending of a factory, school, etc. or plan: （工厂、学校等的）结束，终止
be for the chopWhen the reorganization occurs, the smaller departments will be the first for the chop.进行重组时，较小的部门将会首先被砍掉。
face the chopMany of these special schools are facing the chop.许多这样的特殊学校面临被裁减的命运。

SMART Vocabulary: related words and phrases

Cutting and stabbing
abrasion
bayonet
butcher
carve
carving
chisel
hew
impale
impalement
impaler
incise
scissor
score something out/through
shave
shave something off/from something
shear
shearing
sheep shearing
slash
stab

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Firing staff
Ends and endings

chopnoun[C] (MOUTH)

 chops
[ plural ]informal
the area of the face surrounding the mouth of a person or an animal: （人或动物）嘴周围的地方
a dog licking its chops舔嘴的狗

chopnoun[C] (ABILITY)

 chops[ plural ]informal
ability and technical skill, especially in playing a musical instrument or in acting: 演奏乐器技巧;吹管乐器（如萨克斯）时用嘴的方式
The players show their jazz chops and modern sensibility.这些乐手表现出他们的爵士技巧和现代乐感。
the ability, skill, or experience needed to do something well: （做好…所需的）能力，技巧，经验
She just doesn't have the chops for this demanding role. 她只是没有能力胜任这个高要求的角色。

chop | American Dictionary

chop
verb[ T ]
us/tʃɑp/-pp-

chopverb[T] (CUT)

to cut something into pieces with a sharp tool, such as an ax:
Cal went out to chop some wood for the fireplace.
To chop something off is to separate it from what it was part of by cutting:
Chop the ends off the carrots.
If you chop up something, you cut it into small pieces:
She chopped up some celery for the salad.
chop
noun[ C ]
us/tʃɑp/

chopnoun[C] (MEAT)

a small piece of meat with a bone still in it:
a lamb/pork/veal chop

Examples of chop

chop
After chopping, the suspension was passed through a 50 m mesh nylon filter.
To facilitate equilibration, seed cotyledons were chopped into c. 1 mm3 pieces.
Fish were transferred gently to large covered glass aquaria provided with a continuous flow of fresh seawater and fed fresh chopped fish every 2 days.
The hay was chopped and placed in troughs made out ofmetal drums.
After harvesting the grain, the crop residues from each plot were chopped into 40 + 60 mm pieces and divided according to treatments.
Besides, chopped cane deteriorates more quickly than wholestalk cane, as does burnt cane compared with green cane.
The fact that space is not composed of points entails that space does not come already ' chopped up ' into sub-regions.
The material was chopped in small fragments after which representative samples were taken for chemical analysis.
Ultimately, the columnar vortex pair is literally chopped into thin independent 'pancake' dipoles.
Naturally, this question could also be chopped up into finer bits; this is the well-known infinite regress of causation.
In other words, the detachment fault is chopped by the steeper normal faults.
Immature flukes were recovered from the liver tissue using pepsin digestion after chopping the liver.
I could prevent his even chopping off the foot by giving another $1,000 to him.
Visually, this is equivalent to chopping off a branch of the network for parent one, and replacing it with a branch from parent two.
By decreasing the chopping gap, the light intensity in the spark channels increases while decreasing in the gas diode.
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