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chopped and changed

chopped and changed is the simple past and past participle of chop and change.

Meaning of chop and change

Verb

chop and change (third-person singular simple present chops and changes, present participle chopping and changing, simple past and past participle chopped and changed)

  1. To change or exchange repeatedly.
    • [...] and a good many people at B.T.C. headquarters and at Euston are still smarting from the Select Committee strictures on the L.M.R. Western Lines electrification estimates, whilst the nation at large is suffering from the effects of chopping and changing the electrification schemes.1962 September, “Talking of Trains: Money for (road) jam”, in Modern Railways, page 153
  2. To rearrange, reconfigure, or customise.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:chop and change.

Questions about chopped and changed

What is chopped and changed the simple past and past participle of?
Chopped and changed is the simple past and past participle of chop and change.

Words near chopped and changed in the dictionary

  1. Chopourian
  2. Chopourians
  3. Chopp
  4. choppable
  5. chopped
  6. chopped and changed
  7. chopped and screwed
  8. chopped beef
  9. chopped down
  10. chopped it up
  11. chopped liver

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