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chop shopping

chop shopping is the present participle and gerund of chop shop.

Meaning of chop shop

Noun

chop shop (plural chop shops)

  1. (US) 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.

Questions about chop shopping

What is chop shopping the present participle and gerund of?
Chop shopping is the present participle and gerund of chop shop.

Words near chop shopping in the dictionary

  1. chop off
  2. chop onions
  3. chop out
  4. chop shop
  5. chop shopped
  6. chop shopping
  7. chop shops
  8. chop suey
  9. chop sueys
  10. chop up
  11. chop-chop

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