chop

1. (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.Examples: "chop wood; chop an onion"transitive

2. (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.Examples: "Chop off his head."transitive

3. (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.Examples: "We should chop off some of that department's budget."figurativelytransitive

4. (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.transitive

5. (transitive, baseball) To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.transitive

6. (poker) To divide the pot (or tournament prize) between two or more players.

1. (obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.Examples: "this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of commuting our penance."obsolete

2. (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.Examples: "The wind chops about."

3. (obsolete) To twist words.Examples: "Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge."obsolete

1. (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.in-plural

1. (colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) A stamp or seal; a mark, imprint or impression on a document (or other object or material) made by stamping or sealing a design with ink or wax, respectively, or by other methods.BruneiHong-KongIndiaMalaysiaSingaporecolloquial

2. (colloquial, by extension, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) The device used for stamping or sealing, which also contains the design to be imprinted.BruneiMalaysiaSingaporebroadlycolloquial

1. (transitive, colloquial, India, Hong Kong, Malaysia, Singapore, Brunei) To stamp or seal (a document); to mark, impress or otherwise place a design or symbol on paper or other material, usually, but not necessarily, to indicate authenticity.BruneiHong-KongIndiaMalaysiaSingaporecolloquialtransitive