Chop-shop
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Chop-shop is a noun meaning (transitive) To cut apart a car in a chop shop, either to sell as parts or to alter its appearance.
Meaning
(transitive) To cut apart a car in a chop shop, either to sell as parts or to alter its appearance.
More Meanings
- (transitive, figurative, by analogy) To cut something apart and restructure it.
Example Sentences
Look, the car will be clean. If you're not comfortable, you could chop-shop it.
Plus I moved the paragraph from its original place in the manuscript to another place hundreds of pages away. In short, I chop-shopped it.
On the concrete floor were distributed groups of fenders, doors, sections of roof, hoods, and other more or less "prime cuts" of chop-shopped automobiles carefully sorted by finish and hue, .
Sleeker, faster "muscle cars" were the rage, and so when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz updated Batman in 1964, the Batmobile—the tank-like sedan with a bat-head grille—was chop-shopped into a sportier model.
Word Forms
- chop-shops
- chop-shopping
- chop-shopped
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include chop, hack, break up, shred, cut up, scrap.
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