Chops

Quick meaning: Chops is a noun meaning plural of chop.

Meaning

plural of chop.

More Meanings

1. (originally US jazz slang) One's skill at musical interpretation and delivery; musical performance ability.
2. (informal, by extension) One's skill at any endeavor; ability, talent; competency.
3. (nautical) The area where two tides meet and cause an irregular (choppy) sea.
4. (juggling) A pattern that involves carrying the object with the hand over the next object before throwing it.
5. (Australia, Nigeria, slang) Food.
6. third-person singular simple present indicative of chop
7. (slang) Jaws, lips, mouth.

Example Sentences

Although he did not know all of the ins and outs of the newsroom, he had the writing chops to become a regular contributor.

["]If you don't have a guy who gives you that, despite the greatest acting chops in the world, the show is not going to succeed," Gilligan adds.

Although the bass player had no experience playing in New Orleans, the crowd's enthusiastic response showed that he had the chops to make it in the very particular Crescent City jazz scene.

In Sean Hannity's interview with Herman Cain, the Fox News host asks, with his signature slow-pitch softball style, whether the former CEO has the necessary foreign policy chops to be president.

Word Forms

• chopses
• chopsing
• chopsed

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include chopper, hack, hog, swine, veal, pork.

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