chop-chop

Interjection

1. Used to urge someone to do something quickly.
   • ‘Now you get down to the bathroom an’ I’ll hop ashore and organise it. Chop-chop.’1960, J. E. Macdonnell, Don't Gimme the Ships, Melbourne: Horwitz Publications, page 137
   • We got places to be, pal! Chop chop!2023 December 9, MasterSwordRemix, quoting Flowey, Undertale Yellow, UG Apartments, Neutral Route

Adverb

chop-chop (not comparable)

1. Quickly.
   • "Well, more soon, more better; sendee chop chop," I told him.1836 May 18, The Commercial Journal and Advertiser, Sydney, page 4, column 3
   • "Sam, when you have catchee chow-chow, I want you chop-chop" (quickly).1850, J. Berncastle, A Voyage to China, London: W. Shoberl, page 66

Noun

chop-chop (uncountable)

1. (Australia, informal) Tobacco that is produced and sold without excise (tax), and therefore cheap and illegal.
   • We are here today to try and do the impossible: to stop the chop chop industry.1944, Australian House of Representatives, Parliamentary Debates, volume 265, page 30968
   • 2002 November 11, Major ‘chop chop’ seizure in Northern Queensland, Australian Taxation Office, media release.