chop-shop
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.74 in modern English
20
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of chop shop.
Example Sentences
- "Look, the car will be clean. If you're not comfortable, you could chop-shop it."
- "Sleeker, faster "muscle cars" were the rage, and so when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz updated Batman in 1964, the Batmobile—the tank-like sedan with a bat-head grille—was chop-shopped into a sportier model."
- "On the concrete floor were distributed groups of fenders, doors, sections of roof, hoods, and other more or less "prime cuts" of chop-shopped automobiles carefully sorted by finish and hue, ..."
- "He's considered something of a scold on Wall Street, a hectoring moralist who rails against the business practices of his rivals— an old-economy guy known more for building businesses than chop-shopping them for parts, a brilliant crank with a nearly unbroken string of successful investments."
- "Plus I moved the paragraph from its original place in the manuscript to another place hundreds of pages away. In short, I chop-shopped it."