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chops

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chops  (chps)
pl.n.
1. The jaws.
2.
a. The mouth.
b. The lower cheeks or jowls.
c. Muttonchops.
3. Slang The technical skill with which a jazz or rock musician performs.
Idiom:
bust (someone's) chops
1. To scold or insult someone.
2. To disappoint or defeat someone.
3. To hold a building contractor to the letter of an agreement.
[Possibly akin to chop.]
chops [tʃɒps]
pl n
1. the jaws or cheeks; jowls
2. the mouth
3. Slang
a.  (Music, other) Music embouchure
b.  (Music) Jazz skill
lick one's chops Informal to anticipate with pleasure
[of uncertain origin]
Translations
chops [tʃɒps] NPL (Anat) → boca fsing, labios mpl
to lick one's chops → relamerse, chuparse los dedos
chops [ˈtʃɒps] npl (= jaws) [person] → mâchoire f; [animal] → babines fpl
chops
pl (of dog) → Lefzen pl; (inf, of person) → Visage f (inf)


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The engagement commenced with about two hundred chops administered by the short sailor and the tall sailor alternately, without producing any particular result, until the short sailor was chopped down on one knee; but this was nothing to him, for he worked himself about on the one knee with the assistance of his left hand, and fought most desperately until the tall sailor chopped his sword out of his grasp.
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby by Dickens, Charles View in context
At about six o'clock, all the small tables were put together to form one long table, and everybody sat down to tea, coffee, bread, butter, salmon, shad, liver, steaks, potatoes, pickles, ham, chops, black- puddings, and sausages.
American Notes for General Circulation by Dickens, Charles View in context
and when I go to the houses one wants a leg of mutton for an early dinner and I must be back with it in a quarter of an hour; another cook has forgotten to order the beef; I must go and fetch it and be back in no time, or the mistress will scold; and the housekeeper says they have company coming unexpectedly and must have some chops sent up directly; and the lady at No.
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