chop shop
chop shop noun: a facility where stolen motor vehicles are disassembled in order to sell their mechanical parts. Also the alternative form of chop-shop.
Noun
chop shop (plural chop shops)
- 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.
- Once the car is in a chop shop, a skilled cutter can reduce it to salable parts in half an hour to 45 minutes.1979, “The Car-Theft Boom”, in Newsweek, page 100
Also used as
chop shop is also the alternative form of chop-shop.
Forms of chop shop
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | chop shops |
| alternative form | chop-shop |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | chop shops |
| present participle | chop shopping |
| past participle | chop shopped |
| past | chop shopped |
Questions about chop shop
- What does chop shop mean?
- Chop shop means a facility where stolen motor vehicles are disassembled in order to sell their mechanical parts.
- What part of speech is chop shop?
- Chop shop is a noun.
- What is the plural of chop shop?
- The plural of chop shop is chop shops.
Words near chop shop in the dictionary
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