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.

Examples of chop off in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Lucid aimed its pricing guns squarely at Tesla toward the end of 2020, with a sub-$80,000 base price that converted to under $70k when tax credits were chopped off – though the top-tier Dream Edition did come in more than twice that at $169,000. —New Atlas, 6 Dec. 2025

The week prior, Amal debuted a new fall hairstyle, chopping off 8 inches to ring in the season. —Catherine Santino, PEOPLE, 10 Nov. 2025

Watching that wrecking ball take down the East Wing last month was like chopping off my left arm. —Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 9 Nov. 2025

The passage of Proposition 50 means each will see their current House districts redrawn to various degrees, adding in blue precincts and chopping off reliably GOP-voting precincts. —David Mark, The Washington Examiner, 7 Nov. 2025

Rhymes for chop off

• ashraf
• checkoff
• cutoff
• falloff
• handoff
• kickoff
• layoff
• liftoff
• markoff
• markov
• payoff
• playoff