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chopping out

chopping out is the present participle and gerund of chop out.

Meaning of chop out

Verb

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

  1. (literally, transitive) To remove by chopping.
    • You have to chop out all the weeds.
  2. (literally, transitive) To form a dose of powder cocaine.
    • He chopped out a fat line.
  3. (transitive) To thin out the planting density of cotton.
    • It's a machine to chop out cotton fields.

Questions about chopping out

What is chopping out the present participle and gerund of?
Chopping out is the present participle and gerund of chop out.

Words near chopping out in the dictionary

  1. chopping it up
  2. chopping mill
  3. chopping mills
  4. chopping off
  5. chopping onions
  6. chopping out
  7. chopping stump
  8. chopping up
  9. chopping-board
  10. chopping-boards
  11. chopping-knife

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chopping out (page history and authors); chop out (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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