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chopstuck

chopstuck is the simple past and past participle of chopstick.

Meaning of chopstick

Verb

chopstick (third-person singular simple present chopsticks, present participle chopsticking, simple past and past participle chopsticked or (rare) chopstuck)

  1. (ambitransitive, informal) To pick up (food), or eat, using chopsticks, or as with chopsticks.
    • Then, holding his plate close to his mouth, he chopsticked it in with his fork, and, with tremendous gusto, called for more.1895, Douglas Sladen, The Japs at Home, London: Ward, Lock & Co., page 101
  2. (obsolete, rare) To fish using a tackle with a chopstick.
    • Plaice, and flat fish of all kinds, are taken from the jetties at Yarmouth; and, by taking a boat, good sport may be had chopsticking for marckerel, whiting, and haddock, large quantities of these fish being caught here by this popular method.1892, Ernest R. Suffling, The Land of the Broads, Stratford: Benjiman Perry, page 306

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Questions about chopstuck

What is chopstuck the simple past and past participle of?
Chopstuck is the simple past and past participle of chopstick.

Words near chopstuck in the dictionary

  1. chopstickology
  2. chopsticks
  3. chopsticksful
  4. chopsticky
  5. chopstix
  6. chopstuck
  7. chopsy
  8. chopt
  9. Choptank
  10. Choptanks
  11. Chopunnish

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Adapted from Wiktionary: chopstuck (page history and authors); chopstick (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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