The word chop can refer to:

• The act of cutting or striking
• A cut of meat, (specifically pork, lamb or mutton) that contains a bone, usually a rib. Chops are normally cooked by grilling, although barbecuing and baking are also common.

• A form of fiberglass consisting of short 6-8 inch lengths of glass that is shot out of a pneumatic gun with resin in to a mold. This method is used often when one side of the finished product is not seen, or when large quantities of a product must be made cheaply and quickly without regards to strength. Corvette fenders and boat dinghies are commonly manufactured this way.

• A short steep water wave with a high frequency found in harbors and lakes. Usually created by wind, but also by the passage of boats.

• A colloquial name for seals used in China to prove identity (typically on documents or art in East Asia).

• In poker, the term chop has several different meanings:
  • To chop the pot means to split the pot, esp. in high-low games. Also known as chop-chop.
  • To chop a chip means to break it into smaller denominations. Also known as chop-chop.
  • In certain games, chopping the blinds occurs when all players fold to the blinds, who then remove their bets.

• The city Chop, Ukraine.

• Someone originating from the country of Portugal

• To make a profitable decision. (i.e - trading stocks)

• To call someone chop can be derogatory and implies a person of below average intelligence or a social outcast. Can be used is a freindly manner e.g. wazzup chop!

The plural form chops may refer to:

• A person's lips, e.g. "Get your chops round this burger" or a person's physical ablity to play a wind instrument.
  • The latter is presumably derived from the fact that a person's endurance on a wind instrument is often referred to as his "lip" (as in the expressions "losing my lip" and "strong/weak lip").
  • Musicians also use chops as a synonym for embouchure.
  • By extension chops is also used to describe skill at playing any musical instrument, or style of music (as in "guitar chops" or "jazz chops").
  • Along the same vein, a trumpet or trumpet player can be referred to as a 'chop'

• In the lower case sense, chops can also refer to a man's long sideburns.

• In the Perl programming language, chop is a builtin command to remove a single trailing character from a string.

The acronym CHOP can refer to:

• CHOP - a chemotherapy treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma. It is named after the initials of the principal drugs used.
• The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia
• CHOPS - Asian-American hip-hop producer and rapper

• The term "Choppin blades" refers to the large diameter rims usually on an old school car in the "hood." It is called choppin because the rims are usually five or six spokes and resemble chrome knives or "blades" when cruisin slowly down the block. And of course, the rims must be 20 inches or bigger.

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