chop up
verb7 senses
- 1To cut or chop (meat, etc.) into separate pieces.
- 2To convert a sampled audio file into short segments.
- 3To divide money or proceeds up between partners, investors, etc.
- 4To cut cocaine into a fine powder using a razorblade or…
- 5To cause a body of water to become choppy.
- 6To punch (someone).
- 7To seize or devour greedily.
› To separate or divide something that was whole.
1
To cut or chop (meat, etc.) into separate pieces.
2
Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music To convert a sampled audio file into short segments.
3
To divide money or proceeds up between partners, investors, etc.
4
To cut cocaine into a fine powder using a razorblade or similar implement.
5
To cause a body of water to become choppy.
- The wind chopped up the lake.
6
To punch (someone).
7
Obsolete To seize or devour greedily.
- Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopt up.1692, Roger L’Estrange, “ (please specify the fable number.) (please specify the name of the fable.)”, in Fables, of Æsop and Other Eminent Mythologists: […], London: […] R[ichard] Sare, […], →OCLC: