chop up

phrasal verb

chopped up; chopping up; chops up

: to cut (something) into small pieces

She chopped up the nuts and added them to the cookie dough.

He chopped the onion up for the stew.

Examples of chop up in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

And then that getting chopped up and put online. —Charlie Warzel, The Atlantic, 30 Jan. 2026

Each installment runs barely 25 minutes, so to be honest the entire season almost felt like a long film chopped up into little parts. —New Atlas, 28 Jan. 2026

The painter spends hours drawing sketches of the corpse, then chops up her body, arranges the pieces in a suitcase and buries it with the help of an old man sitting under a cypress tree. —Amir Ahmadi Arian, The Dial, 15 Jan. 2026

This horror mashup looks more like an indie-level attempt to take an exploitable idea and run it into the ground with one novel way after another to chop up a teenage cast. —Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026

Rhymes for chop up

• backup
• blowup
• breakup
• buildup
• checkup
• cleanup
• holdup
• hookup
• lineup
• lockup
• makeup
• markup