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Wiktionary

  1. choppingnoun

    The action by which something is chopped.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Choppingparticipial, adj.

    An epithet frequently applied to infants, by way of ludicrous commendation: imagined by Stephen Skinner to signify lusty, from cas, Sax.

    Etymology: In this sense, of uncertain etymology.

    Both Jack Freeman and Ned Wild,
    Would own the fair and chopping child. Elijah Fenton.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Chopping

    of Chop

  2. Choppingadjective

    stout or plump; large

  3. Choppingadjective

    shifting or changing suddenly, as the wind; also, having tumbling waves dashing against each other; as, a chopping sea

  4. Choppingnoun

    act of cutting by strokes

  5. Etymology: [See Chop to barter.]

Freebase

  1. Chopping

    In hip hop music sampling, chopping is the "altering [of] a sampled phrase [or break] by dividing it into smaller segments and reconfiguring them in a different order."

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Chopping

    chop′ing, adj. stout, strapping, plump.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of chopping in Chaldean Numerology is: 4

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of chopping in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7

Examples of chopping in a Sentence

  1. Greg Schiano:

    This is a family, man. And we’ve got to keep chopping. Keep chopping.

  2. Donald Trump:

    They're chopping off heads of Christians and many other people in the Middle East. They're chopping heads off, they laugh at us when they hear we're not going to approve waterboarding and then they'll have a James Foley and others where they cut off their heads.

  3. George Bernard Shaw:

    The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

  4. Donald Trump:

    I'd go through a process and get it declassified frankly ... certainly waterboarding at a minimum, they're chopping off heads of Christians and many other people in the Middle East. They're chopping heads off, they laugh at us when they hear we're not going to approve waterboarding and then they'll have a James Foley and others where they cut off their heads.

  5. William Cohen:

    Let me just tell you, you look at the Middle East. They're chopping off heads, they're chopping off the heads of Christians and anybody else that happens to be in the way. They're drowning people in steel cages.

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