ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Chop-chop

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech interjection

Quick meaning: Chop-chop is an interjection meaning Used to urge someone to do something quickly.

Meaning

Used to urge someone to do something quickly.

More Meanings

  1. Quickly.
  2. (Australia, informal) Tobacco that is produced and sold without excise (tax), and therefore cheap and illegal.

Example Sentences

(Singapore) chop-chop kalipok
"Well, more soon, more better; sendee chop chop," I told him.
"Sam, when you have catchee chow-chow, I want you chop-chop" (quickly).
We are here today to try and do the impossible: to stop the chop chop industry.

Synonyms for chop-chop

Depending on context, synonyms include apace, rapidly, speedily, quickly.

Antonyms for chop-chop

Common opposites include tardily, easy, slow, slowly.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include quickly, speedily, apace, rapidly, lickety-split, quick.

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