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chop onions

chop onions verb: to lead someone to cry, often in relief after a long struggle, or in response to a story involving third parties.

Verb

chop onions (third-person singular simple present chops onions, present participle chopping onions, simple past and past participle chopped onions)

  1. (humorous, social media) To lead someone to cry, often in relief after a long struggle, or in response to a story involving third parties.
    • Aww ... who's chopping onions in my room? 🥹

Forms of chop onions

third-person singular presentchops onions
present participlechopping onions
past participlechopped onions
pastchopped onions

Questions about chop onions

What does chop onions mean?
Chop onions means to lead someone to cry, often in relief after a long struggle, or in response to a story involving third parties.
What part of speech is chop onions?
Chop onions is a verb.
What is the past tense of chop onions?
The past tense of chop onions is chopped onions.

Words near chop onions in the dictionary

  1. chop logic
  2. chop logics
  3. chop mill
  4. chop mills
  5. chop off
  6. chop onions
  7. chop out
  8. chop shop
  9. chop shopped
  10. chop shopping
  11. chop shops

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