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chops
/ ʃɒ /
plural noun
- the jaws or cheeks; jowls
- the mouth
- slang.
- music embouchure
- jazz skill
- lick one's chops informal.to anticipate with pleasure
Word History and Origins
Origin of chops1
Idioms and Phrases
see break one's ass (chops) ; lick one's chops .Example Sentences
Young Arthur hasn’t got any musical chops, but whenever they come over he goes straight to the grand piano and he’s looking for cool stuff on there.
"Not only did he have great acting chops, but he was funny as hell."
The lighter, more delicate herb chops easily, and both the leaves and stems are edible.
Wearing sunglasses and a heavy leather trenchcoat, Fishburne showed off his action movie chops as the enigmatic operative Morpheus in the original film and the first two sequels.
It wasn’t one of the best pieces of the night, but it at least showed off Madison’s comedy chops that fans of Pamela Adlon’s FX show “Better Things” have known about for years.
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Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
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