<p><strong>Verb</strong></p><ul><li>To cut or sever with a quick, heavy blow or a series of blows, using an ax, hatchet, etc. (often followed by down, off, etc.): to chop down a tree.</li><li>To make or prepare for use by so cutting: to chop logs.</li><li>To cut in pieces; mince (often followed by up): to chop up an onion; to chop meat.</li><li>(In tennis, cricket, etc.) to hit (a ball) with a chop stroke.</li><li>To weed and thin out (growing cotton) with a hoe.</li><li>Fox Hunting: (of a hound or pack) to attack and kill (a fox that has not begun to run).</li></ul><p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>An act or instance of chopping.</li><li>A cutting blow.</li><li>Boxing: a short blow, especially a downward one, executed while in a clinch.</li><li>A piece chopped off.</li><li>An individual cut or portion of meat, as mutton, lamb, veal, or pork, usually one containing a rib.</li><li>Crushed or ground grain used as animal feed.</li><li>A short, irregular, broken motion of waves; choppiness: There's too much chop for rowing today.</li><li>Rough, turbulent water, as of a sea or lake.</li><li>(In tennis, cricket, etc.) a chop stroke.</li></ul><p><strong>End of Response</strong></p>