chop up
English
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Verb
chop up (third-person singular simple present chops up, present participle chopping up, simple past and past participle chopped up)
- (transitive) To separate or divide something that was whole.
- (transitive) To cut or chop (meat, etc.) into separate pieces.
- (transitive, music) To convert a sampled audio file into short segments.
- (transitive) To cause a body of water to become choppy.
- The wind chopped up the lake.
- (transitive, obsolete) To seize or devour greedily.
- 1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], OCLC 228727523:
- Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopt up.
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