noun

• (martial arts) A blow delivered with the hand rigid and outstretched.
  "A karate chop."
• (poker) A hand where two or more players have an equal-valued hand, resulting in the chips being shared equally between them.
  "With both players having an ace-high straight, the pot was a chop."
• (informal, with "the") Termination, especially from employment; the sack.
• (Australia, New Zealand) A woodchopping competition.
  "E, C. McsEnulty, who won the chop at the show on Thursday, cut through a foot lying block in 34 seconds[.]"

verb

• (transitive) To cut into pieces with short, vigorous cutting motions.
  "chop wood; chop an onion"
• (transitive) To sever with an axe or similar implement.
  "Chop off his head."
• (transitive, figurative) To separate or divide.
  "We should chop off some of that department's budget."
• (transitive) to give a downward cutting blow or movement, typically with the side of the hand.

verb

• (obsolete) To exchange, to barter; to swap.
  "this is not to put down Prelaty, this is but to chop an Episcopacy; this is but to translate the Palace Metropolitan from one kind of dominion into another, this is but an old canonicall sleight of commuting our penance."
• (nautical) To vary or shift suddenly.
  "The wind chops about."
• (obsolete) To twist words.
  "Let not the counsel at the bar chop with the judge."

noun

• (chiefly in the plural) A jaw of an animal.