chop

A cut of meat, often containing a section of a rib.

I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.

Of the two fried chops served him for breakfast he ate one and gave Edmund the other, and put a buttered sandwich of bread in his pocket against the accidents of travel.

A blow with an axe, cleaver, or similar implement.

It should take just one good chop to fell the sapling.

A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.

A karate chop.

Ocean waves, generally caused by wind, distinguished from swell by being smaller and not lasting as long.

A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.

With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop.

To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

chop wood; chop an onion

To sever with an axe or similar implement.

Chop off his head.

To separate or divide.

We should chop off some of that department's budget.

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

To hit the ball downward so that it takes a high bounce.

To exchange, to barter; to swap.

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.

To chap or crack.

To vary or shift suddenly.

The wind chops about.

To twist words.

Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge.

To converse, discuss, or speak with another.