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

Medicine

  • Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world
  • CHOP (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  • DNA damage-inducible transcript 3, a genetic protein also known as "CHOP", for "C/EBP-homologous protein"

Music

  • Embouchure, in music, a synonym for chops (and later, more broadly, musical skill or ability)
  • CHOPS, an Asian-American hip hop producer, rapper and member of rap group Mountain Brothers
  • Chops (Euros Childs album), 2006
  • Chops (Joe Pass album), 1978

Sports

  • Chop Robinson (born 2003), American football player
  • Chop (wrestling), a move in professional wrestling
  • Chops (juggling), a juggling pattern using three balls or clubs
  • Knifehand strike, also known as a karate chop, a fast and focused strike with the side of the hand
  • Backspin, a shot such that the ball rotates backwards after it is hit, especially in table tennis or other racket sports
  • Chop block (gridiron football), a now-illegal blocking technique

Other uses

  • Chop, Ukraine, a city
  • Chop railway station
  • Meat chop, a cut of meat usually containing a rib and served as an individual portion
  • Seal (East Asia), or "chop" colloquially, used in East Asia to prove identity
  • Chop (film), a 2011 American horror film
  • Chop (fiberglass), a form of fiberglass
  • Cold heavy oil production with sand, a technique for extracting difficult heavy crude oil
  • Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, a short-lived self-proclaimed autonomous zone in Seattle

See also

  • Mutton chops, a colloquial term for sideburns
  • Chop Chop (disambiguation)
  • Chopped (disambiguation)
  • Chopping (disambiguation)