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chop-shop

verb 2
chop shop noun 1
forms 6

verb2

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To cut apart a car in a chop shop, either to sell as parts or to alter its appearance.
- Look, the car will be clean. If you're not comfortable, you could chop-shop it. — 2007
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(figurative) To cut something apart and restructure 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. — 2007

chop shop noun1

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(US) A facility where stolen motor vehicles are disassembled in order to sell their mechanical parts.
- Apparently his stolen car had been taken to a chop shop, as the police only recovered the frame.

forms

chop shopped · chop-shopped · chop shopping · chop-shopping · chop shops · chop-shops

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