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chop-shop
verb 2noun 1
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1ADJ.
comfortable
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noun
1
Alternative form of chop shop.
verb
1
To cut apart a car in a chop shop, either to sell as parts or to alter its appearance.
Look, the car will be clean. If you're not comfortable, you could chop-shop it.
Sleeker, faster "muscle cars" were the rage, and so when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz updated Batman in 1964, the Batmobile—the tank-like sedan with a bat-head grille—was chop-shopped into a sportier model.
2
To cut something apart and restructure it.
He's considered something of a scold on Wall Street, a hectoring moralist who rails against the business practices of his rivals— an old-economy guy known more for building businesses than chop-shopping them for parts, a brilliant crank with a nearly unbroken string of successful investments.
Plus I moved the paragraph from its original place in the manuscript to another place hundreds of pages away. In short, I chop-shopped it.
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Look, the car will be clean. If you're not comfortable, you could chop-shop it.
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Sleeker, faster "muscle cars" were the rage, and so when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz updated Batman in 1964, the Batmobile—the tank-like sedan with a bat-head grille—was chop-shopped into a sport
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On the concrete floor were distributed groups of fenders, doors, sections of roof, hoods, and other more or less "prime cuts" of chop-shopped automobiles carefully sorted by finish and hue, ...
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