a.The mouth. b.The lower cheeks or jowls. c.Muttonchops. 3.SlangThe technical skill with which a jazz or rock musician performs. Idiom: bust (someone's) chops 1.To scold or insult someone. 2.To disappoint or defeat someone. 3.To hold a building contractor to the letter of an agreem...
expressions allude to anticipating a tasty morsel of food. The second is the older, dating from about 1500 and used interchangeably withlick one's fingers, now seldom heard. The first also served as 1930s jazz slang for warming up,chopsmeaning "the jaw or mouth" (a usage dating from the...
Another possibility is that the word has no exotic elements and is native English from one of the senses ofchop. One explanation which is declared in 18c. sources links it with English slangchop, "mouth, jaw" (seechops) giving the meaning "mouth sticks." There are also senses ofchopmeanin...
a.The mouth. b.The lower cheeks or jowls. c.Muttonchops. 3.SlangThe technical skill with which a jazz or rock musician performs. Idiom: bust (someone's) chops 1.To scold or insult someone. 2.To disappoint or defeat someone. 3.To hold a building contractor to the letter of an agreem...
expressions allude to anticipating a tasty morsel of food. The second is the older, dating from about 1500 and used interchangeably withlick one's fingers, now seldom heard. The first also served as 1930s jazz slang for warming up,chopsmeaning "the jaw or mouth" (a usage dating from the...
a.The mouth. b.The lower cheeks or jowls. c.Muttonchops. 3.SlangThe technical skill with which a jazz or rock musician performs. Idiom: bust (someone's) chops 1.To scold or insult someone. 2.To disappoint or defeat someone. 3.To hold a building contractor to the letter of an agreem...