English

Verb

chop up ‎(third-person singular simple present chops up, present participle chopping up, simple past and past participle chopped up)

1. (transitive, of meat, flesh, corpses) to cut or chop in order to separate
2. (transitive) to separate, divide something that was considered whole
   1. (music) To convert a sampled audio file into short segments
3. (transitive) to cause a body of water to become choppy

   The wind chopped up the lake.

4. (transitive, obsolete) to seize or devour greedily
   • L'Estrange

     Upon the opening of his mouth he drops his breakfast, which the fox presently chopped up.