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.
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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.
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
Remove the branches and chop up the trunk to use in your fire pit or indoor fireplace.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
When a protein is chopped up into small pieces (peptides), a piece that carries this special amino acid difference is called a Genetically Variant Peptide (GVP).
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2025
Leon Bates, who was outside of the state Capitol with hundreds of people chanting, told Gringlas that a new map would chop up his predominantly Black community.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Dec. 2025
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Pete Hammond, Deadline, 8 Jan. 2026
Remove the branches and chop up the trunk to use in your fire pit or indoor fireplace.
—Brandee Gruener, Southern Living, 3 Jan. 2026
When a protein is chopped up into small pieces (peptides), a piece that carries this special amino acid difference is called a Genetically Variant Peptide (GVP).
—Abhimanyu Ghoshal, New Atlas, 20 Dec. 2025
Leon Bates, who was outside of the state Capitol with hundreds of people chanting, told Gringlas that a new map would chop up his predominantly Black community.
—Brittney Melton, NPR, 9 Dec. 2025
See All Example Sentences for chop up
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“Chop up.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chop%20up. Accessed 11 Jan. 2026.
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