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Wiktionary
chopsnoun
The mouth, jaws or jowl.
chopsnoun
A wind instrument player's embouchure.
chopsnoun
One's skill at musical interpretation and delivery; musical performance ability.
Although the bass player had no experience playing in New Orleans, the crowd's enthusiastic response make it clear that he had the chops to make it in the very particular Crescent City jazz scene.
chopsnoun
One's skill at any endeavor.
Although he did not know all of the ins and outs of the newsroom, he had the writing chops to become a regular contributor.
chopsnoun
The area where two tides meet and cause an irregular (choppy) sea.
chopsnoun
A pattern that involves carrying the object with the hand over the next object before throwing it.
Samuel Johnson's Dictionary
Chopsnoun
without a singular.
Etymology: corrupted probably from Chaps, which see.
So soon as my chops begin to walk, yours must be walking too, for company. Roger L'Estrange, Fab.
He ne’er shook hands, nor bid farewel to him,
’Till he unseam’d him from the nape to th’ chops. William Shakespeare.
Wikipedia
chops
CHOPS is the stage name of Scott Jung, also known as Scott Chops Jung, an American hip hop producer, rapper and former member of the Asian American Hip-Hop group, the Mountain Brothers. Jung grew up in Philadelphia and has Chinese ancestry. While with Mountain Brothers, he became known for using a combination of programmed and live instruments in his work, as opposed to sampling the work of others. Since the disbanding of the Mountain Brothers, CHOPS has worked primarily as a producer, with his most high-profile piece being the critically acclaimed 2011 video for Lonely Island entitled "The Creep."
Webster Dictionary
Chops
the jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth
Chops
the sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel, harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel
Etymology: [See Chop a jaw.]
Wikidata
CHOPS
CHOPS is the stage name of Scott Jung, an Asian American hip hop producer, rapper and former member of the Asian American Hip-Hop group, the Mountain Brothers. Jung grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and has Chinese ancestry. While with Mountain Brothers, he was known for using a combination of programmed and live instruments in his work, as opposed to sampling the work of others. Since the disbanding of the Mountain Brothers, CHOPS has worked exclusively as a producer, with his most high profile piece being the critically acclaimed 2011 video for Lonely Island entitled "The Creep."
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Numerology
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of chops in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of chops in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Examples of chops in a Sentence
This impulsive decision by the President has undone all the gains we've made, thrown the region into further chaos. Iran is licking their chops. And if I'm Monday Graham I've got a second lease on life. So to those who think ISIS has been defeated you will soon see.
I just kind of fell in love with it right off the bat, burgers, pork chops, whatever you're eating you should be drinking sake with it.
Now no one chops down trees to harvest fuelwood.
Social media is a big part of the dining scene today and we didn’t have to think about it when we opened Boston Chops South End five years ago,said co-owner Chris Coombs. Now, it is imperative that photos of restaurant interior and food are beautiful when they are posted online by influencers. It is a great marketing tool for people to see our food, dcor and cocktails and hopefully entice them to check it out for themselves.
When Alex Ferguson left I think there was a lot of people probably in the media( licking their) chops, excited for and looking for the slaughter that was about to come -- that was impending because unless the next manager came in and was absolutely perfect that was what was going to happen, david Moyes is one hell of a tough character. If anyone can withstand that and brush it off and move on it's David Moyes.
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