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• Pork chops boiled with turnip greens make a mighty fine meal.From the entry mighty
• I've been busting my chops to get this out by end of day.From the entry bust one's chops
• I only like lamb chops with mint jelly.From the entry chop
• The boss has been busting chops all day.From the entry bust chops
• The boss busted our chops all week.From the entry bust chops
• Will you defrost the chops for supper tonight?From the entry defrost
• And all over Hollywood, suits are licking their chops at the prospect of more malleable actors.2025 October 4, Maureen Dowd, “When A.I. Came for Hollywood”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN…. From the entry talent
• Prepare the loin as for French chops and arrange like a crown, rolling the loin backward.2019, Maria Willett Howard, Lowney's Cook Book. From the entry French chop
• Pork chops are the go-to dish in the Midwest for an easy, inexpensive, and satisfying meal.2015, Colby Garrelts, Megan Garrelts, “Cast Iron and Dutch Ovens”, in Made in America: A Modern Collection of Classic Recipes, Andrews…. From the entry pork chop
• He loves grilled chops, sole meunière, rare tournedos and fresh vegetables.2007 January 19, Elaine Sciolino, “The French Know Where 007 Acquired His Savoir-Faire”, in New York Times. From the entry tournedos
• Ye bust yer chops engineering intelligent monkeys an ye hae a guid craik wi them.2007 April 26, “The Scottish word: Craik”, in Scottish Words Illustrated. From the entry craik
• Throughout, Lynch ably chops logic and tests positions for their fit with the Constitution's text.2000, Charles A. Lofgren, “Review of Negotiating the Constitution: The Earliest Debates over Original Intent by Joseph. M. Lynch,”, in The…. From the entry chop logic
• For a glorious garnish, mate the tomato-saucey chops with broiled tomatoes.1968 August 21, S.S. Pierce Company, “The Epicure Corner”, in Boston Evening Globe, Boston, Mass.: Globe Newspaper Co., page 3. From the entry tomato-saucey
• I was standing at the meat counter, waiting for some rib lamb chops to be cut.1957, J. D. Salinger, “Zooey”, in Franny and Zooey, published 1961. From the entry chop
• They may have special shades of paper stamps or "chops," tickets, tapes, ribbons, and parcellings.1926, Lloyd's Packing Warehouses Ltd, The Story of the Bale, page 17. From the entry parcelling
• Soup, chops, peas, French fries, and the fruit pudding–there wasn't a thing new.”1903, Lillian Pettengill, Toilers of the Home, New York: Doubleday, Page & Company, page 292. From the entry french fries
• My husband chops wood for the bogracs, our big Hungarian soup pot that loosely resembles a witch’s cauldron.2012 July 21, Judi Resick-Csokai, “Grandma’s magic soup pot: The ultimate comfort food grounds us in our ancient roots”, in Pittsburgh…. From the entry bogracs
• The burr chops the coffee into uniformly sized pieces, which enables the water to run through it and extract evenly.2011, Michaele Weissman, God in a Cup: The Obsessive Quest for the Perfect Coffee, HMH, →ISBN. From the entry burr
• Neither possesses a serve fast enough to dent a radar gun and their stabby backhands resemble karate chops.1991 September 18, “Walker, Holton Are A Winning Duo”, in South Florida Sun-Sentinel. From the entry stabby
• Browned and simmered in orange juice with raisins, tender pork chops are the nucleus of a delicious family dinner.1980, Sun-Maid Growers of California, “Hot and Hearty: Main Dishes for Memorable Meals”, in The Sun-Maid Cookbook, Benjamin Company…. From the entry pork chop
• Fresh kiełbasa is made, center cut pork chops are trimmed just right, and the kapusta (sauerkraut) is prepared for cooking.1979, Paul Wrobel, Our Way: Family, Parish, and Neighborhood in a Polish-American Community, Notre Dame, Ind.; London: University of Notre…. From the entry kapusta
• The veal chops should have been trimmed of fat.1979, New York Magazine, page 68. From the entry mushiness
• I only gave her a bit of a smack on the chops, we didn't get around to the fair dinkum article!1968, Barrie Humphries, The wonderful World of Barry McKenzie, page 12. From the entry come the raw prawn
• “And why don’t you stop breaking my chops, eh?”1960, Lenny Bruce, 1:24 from the start, in The Palladium. From the entry break one's chops
• Steak, chops, boerewors coiled sausage and chicken are cooked on a braai (an open fire of wood or coals) to go in rolls with salad.2026 June 6, Joanne Gould, “Pass the chakalaka! The best World Cup drinks and snacks – inspired by all 48 teams”, in The Guardian, →ISSN. From the entry biltong
• A definite hit is the paidakia, four excellent small Colorado lamb chops, cooked medium-rare as requested, accompanied by a deep-fried potato patty.2015 August 21, Patricia Brooks, “Restaurant Review: Lithos in Darien Is Built on a Greek Tradition”, in New York Times. From the entry paidakia
• I massage my chump chops with olive oil, coarse black pepper and herbs de Provence, adding sea salt just before they reach the grill.1999 May 16, Nigel Slater, “For the chop”, in The Guardian. From the entry herbs de Provence
• The rest of the deer is butchered into chops, steaks, roasts, stew meat, venisonburger, and even ribs, if the deer is a large one.1977, Field & Stream, volume 82, number 8, page 60. From the entry venisonburger
• Rocky, ordinarily a first-rate trencherman, was pushing away from the breakfast table after downing only two eggs and a pair of lamb chops.1954 June 28, “Sport: Bumbling Champ”, in Time. From the entry trencherman
• I looked for the counterman, seeing him serving a plate of pork chops and grits to a man with a pale blond moustache.1952, Ralph Ellison, Invisible Man, Penguin Books (2014), page 179. From the entry counterman
• Bradly hung the fowl in a sugar-bag for to-morrow's dinner and set about grilling chops, with tomatoes stuffed with cheese and breadcrumbs in the pan.1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 139. From the entry grill
• Broiling is but another way of roasting those cuts of meat which have a broad, flat surface such as steaks, chops, or cutlets.1922, "The Bride's Cookery Primer", Good Housekeeping, volume 74, page 66. From the entry cuts
• "A pound of chops," says he, "coming into the Mansion House." "Wisha!" says I, "what kind of people is going at all now?"1904–1907 (date written), James Joyce, “Ivy Day in the Committee Room”, in Dubliners, London: Grant Richards, published June 1914, →OCLC…. From the entry wisha
• Pork Chops with Apple and Port These chops are baked in a piquant sauce containing fruit, honey, cinnamon, lemon and port, all of which reduces to a spicy syrup.2000, Lynn Bedford Hall, The Best of Cooking in South Africa, 2nd edition, Cape Town: Struik Publishers, →ISBN, page 103. From the entry piquant
• “Either way you want it,” says Babbs, grinning in the most frightening manner now, like the next step is eight karate chops to the gizzards and giblets.1968, Tom Wolfe, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →OCLC, page 255. From the entry Mexican standoff

Meaning of chops

1. noun Jaws, lips, mouth.
2. noun One's skill at musical interpretation and delivery; musical performance ability.
3. noun One's skill at any endeavor; ability, talent; competency.

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Questions about chops in a sentence

How do you use chops in a sentence?

Chops is used as a noun. For example: “Although he did not know all of the ins and outs of the newsroom, he had the writing chops to become a regular contributor.”

What is a short sentence with chops?

“The boss busted our chops all week.”

What does chops mean?

Chops means jaws, lips, mouth.