Chop-chop Definition

chŏpchŏp
adverb
(do it) Quickly; (in a) hurry.
Webster's New World
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interjection

Used to urge someone to do something quickly.

Wiktionary
noun

(Australia, informal) Tobacco that is produced and sold without excise (tax), and therefore cheap and illegal.

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Origin of Chop-chop

  • Reduplication of Chinese Pidgin English chop quick of Chinese dialectal origin Cantonese gap1 Mandarin jí hurried both from Middle Chinese jí hurried

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • From Chinese Pidgin English, from Cantonese 急急 (gāpgāp, “quick").

    From Wiktionary

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