chop off
phrasal verb
chopped off; chopping off; chops off
: to remove (something) by cutting
She'd had her ponytail chopped off.
He took an axe and chopped the low branch off the tree.
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As the executive chef at Koya, an udon bar in London, Yamasaki cooked live eels, whose bodies could remain jumpy and unwieldy even once their heads had been chopped off.
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Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
To go with her new gal on the go lifestyle, she's chopped off her iconic perm in favor of a whimsical, shaggy pixie cut.
—Meg Walters, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
The time is never right to severely chop off your crape myrtle.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026
Casimir said the plates would act as a kind of guillotine for the electromagnetic field, chopping off long-wavelength oscillations in a way that would skew the zero-point energy.
—George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2026
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Hannah Goldfield, New Yorker, 19 Jan. 2026
To go with her new gal on the go lifestyle, she's chopped off her iconic perm in favor of a whimsical, shaggy pixie cut.
—Meg Walters, InStyle, 9 Jan. 2026
The time is never right to severely chop off your crape myrtle.
—Leanne Potts, Better Homes & Gardens, 7 Jan. 2026
Casimir said the plates would act as a kind of guillotine for the electromagnetic field, chopping off long-wavelength oscillations in a way that would skew the zero-point energy.
—George Musser, Quanta Magazine, 5 Jan. 2026
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“Chop off.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chop%20off. Accessed 29 Jan. 2026.
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