Chop, CHOP, Chops, or CHOPS may refer to:

Art

Embouchure Embouchure () or lipping is the use of the lips, facial muscles, tongue, and teeth in playing a wind instrument. This includes shaping the lips to the mouthpiece of a woodwind instrument or the mouthpiece of a brass instrument. The word is of ...

, in music, a synonym for chops (and later, more broadly, musical skill or ability) *

CHOPS CHOPS is the stage name of Scott Jung, also known as Scott Chops Jung, an Asian American hip hop producer, rapper and former member of the Asian American Hip-Hop group, the Mountain Brothers. Jung grew up in Philadelphia and has Chinese ancestry ...

, an Asian-American hip hop producer, rapper and member of rap group Mountain Brothers * ''Chops'' (Euros Childs album), 2006 * ''Chops'' (Joe Pass album), 1978

Medicine

Children's Hospital of Philadelphia The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) is a children's hospital in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, with its primary campus located in the University City neighborhood of West Philadelphia in the campus of the University of Pennsylvania. The h ...

, one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world *

CHOP (chemotherapy) CHOP is the acronym for a chemotherapy regimen used in the treatment of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. CHOP consists of: * Cyclophosphamide, an alkylating agent which damages DNA by binding to it and causing the formation of cross-links * (also called d ...

, a chemotherapy treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma *

DNA damage-inducible transcript 3 DNA damage-inducible transcript 3, also known as C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP), is a pro-apoptotic transcription factor that is encoded by the ''DDIT3'' gene. It is a member of the CCAAT/enhancer-binding protein (C/EBP) family of DNA-binding ...

, a genetic protein also known as "CHOP", for "C/EBP-homologous protein"

Sports

Knifehand strike In martial arts, a knifehand strike is a strike using the part of the hand opposite the thumb (from the little finger to the wrist), familiar to many people as a karate chop (in Japanese, ''shutō-uchi''). This refers to strikes performed with ...

, also known as the karate chop, a fast and focused strike with the side of the hand *

Chop (wrestling) Strikes are offensive moves in professional wrestling, that can sometimes be used to set up an opponent for a hold or for a throw. There are a wide variety of strikes in pro wrestling, and many are known by several different names. Professional wre ...

, offensive move in professional wrestling, used to set up an opponent for a submission hold or for a throw *

Chops (juggling) In toss juggling, a cascade is the simplest juggling pattern achievable with an odd number of props. The simplest juggling pattern is the three- ball cascade,Bernstein, Nicholai A. (1996). ''Dexterity and Its Development'', p.379. . This is the ...

, a juggling pattern using three balls or clubs *

Chopping the blinds In poker games with blinds, chopping the blinds is a custom that may occur when all other players fold to the blinds before the flop. The blinds then remove their bets, ending the hand. Chopping the blinds is a common occurrence in live ring game ...

, in poker, when all players fold to the blinds, who then remove their bets *Backspin, a shot such that the ball rotates backwards after it is hit, especially in

table tennis Table tennis, also known as ping-pong and whiff-whaff, is a sport in which two or four players hit a lightweight ball, also known as the ping-pong ball, back and forth across a table using small solid rackets. It takes place on a hard table div ...

or other racket sports

Other

Chop, Zakarpattia Oblast Chop ( uk, Чоп, hu, Csap, sk, Čop, rue, Чоп, yi, טשאָפּ) is a city located in Zakarpattia Oblast (province) of western Ukraine, near the borders of Slovakia and Hungary. It is separated from the Hungarian town of Záhony by the ...

, a small city in Ukraine *

Meat chop A meat chop is a cut of meat cut perpendicular to the spine, and usually containing a rib or riblet part of a vertebra and served as an individual portion. The most common kinds of meat chops are pork and lamb. A thin boneless chop, or one wit ...

, a cut of meat usually containing a rib and served as an individual portion *

Chop (fiberglass) Spray-Up also known as chop method of creating fiberglass objects by spraying short strands of glass out of a pneumatic gun. This method is used often when one side of the finished product is not seen, or when large quantities of a product must be m ...

, a form of fiberglass * Cold heavy-oil production with sand, a technique for extracting difficult heavy crude oil where sand is used as a means enhancing the productivity of the oil well *

Seal (East Asia) A seal, in an East and Southeast Asian context, is a general name for printing stamps and impressions thereof which are used in lieu of signatures in personal documents, office paperwork, contracts, art, or any item requiring acknowledgement ...

, or "chop" colloquially, used in China, Japan, and other parts of East Asia to prove identity (typically on documents or art in East Asia) *

Mutton chops Sideburns, sideboards, or side whiskers are facial hair grown on the sides of the face, extending from the hairline to run parallel to or beyond the ears. The term ''sideburns'' is a 19th-century corruption of the original ''burnsides'', named ...

, a colloquial term for sideburns *

Capitol Hill Occupied Protest The Capitol Hill Occupied Protest or the Capitol Hill Organized Protest (CHOP), originally Free Capitol Hill and later the Capitol Hill Autonomous Zone (CHAZ), was an occupation protest and self-declared autonomous zone in the Capitol Hill nei ...

, a short-lived self-proclaimed autonomous zone in Seattle

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