chop-shop

Verb

chop-shop (third-person singular simple present chop-shops, present participle chop-shopping, simple past and past participle chop-shopped)

1. (transitive) 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, Eric Jerome Dickey, Waking with Enemies
   • Sleeker, faster "muscle cars" were the rage, and so when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz updated Batman in 1964, the Batmobile—the tank-like sedan with a bat-head grille—was chop-shopped into a sportier model.2009, Michael Eury, Michael Kronenberg, The Batcave Companion, page 71
2. (figuratively, transitive, by analogy) To cut something apart and restructure it.
   • He's considered something of a scold on Wall Street, a hectoring moralist who rails against the business practices of his rivals— an old-economy guy known more for building businesses than chop-shopping them for parts, a brilliant crank with a nearly unbroken string of successful investments.2004, New York - Volume 37, page 16
   • 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, Raja Alem -, My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca, page xii