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Synonyms for chop

31 synonyms
2 meanings

noun
verb

Most common

splash cutter ching shank sack axe UK op chopper

Synonyms by meaning

Noun

1. Cutter — A knife, especially one used as a weapon

cutter, shank, splash, ching, pokey, poker, rambo, ying, bassy, jook, splasher, nank, jooker, cheffer, chete slang

2. Axe — termination, especially from employment; the sack

axe UK, ax US, sack, pink slip

Other

hash, chopper, stroke, shift, op, chanop

Verb

cut, hack, slice, mince, crack, hew, veer

Definitions

n. 1
Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
n. 2
A knife, especially one used as a weapon.
v. 1
To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.

Related words

Word family: chops
Phrases: chop logic get the chop mutton chop chop off chop mill chop and chat chop up

Forms

Plural: chops → cutters, shanks, splashes, chings…
Past participle: chopped
e.g. chopped → hacked, sliced, minced, cracked…

Example sentences

splash Splish-splash is an example of an ideophone.
cutter Ziri cut the sheet metal with a plasma cutter.
shank If the car breaks down, I’ll have to go by shank’s mare.
sack All I found in the pantry was a sack of hard bread.
axe It's a sharp axe, but the branch is not yielding.

Popularity over time

Word	1850 → 2019	Trend
chop		rising
splash		rising
cutter		falling
ching		falling
shank		falling
sack		rising

Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.

By length

2 letters: op¹, ax¹
3 letters: cut¹, axe¹, hew¹
4 letters: hack¹, sack¹, hash¹, ying¹, veer¹, jook, nank
5 letters: shift¹, crack¹, poker², slice¹, ching¹, shank¹, rambo², mince¹, pokey², bassy, chete
6 letters: stroke¹, splash¹, cutter², jooker, chanop
7 letters: chopper², cheffer
8 letters: splasher

The small number after each word is its number of syllables (poker² = 2 syllables).