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chop-chop

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From TFV:"In order to be able to perform the landing they needed to update their software to give it optical navigation abilities ..."Imagine being part of the team that had to do that, fast, chop-chop, or else their billion dollar space mission would fail miserably.

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Quick take

with rapid movements; "he works quickly"

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The clearest senses and uses of chop-chop gathered in one view.

adverb

with rapid movements; "he works quickly"

Definitions

Core meanings and parts of speech for chop-chop.

Example sentences

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From TFV:"In order to be able to perform the landing they needed to update their software to give it optical navigation abilities ..."Imagine being part of the team that had to do that, fast, chop-chop, or else their billion dollar space mission would fail miserably.

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But do you know what was the result, this guy was a was one of the you know all the [TV] series CIS / police investigation, we was simply writing a scenario and wanted to check you know, and you have this again and again or form China they told me a wonderful example of this stupidity a guy just before Tiananmen [Square] anniversary a guy was an English professor in Beijing was flirting with a lady in London, and since they were both educated he used a wonderful quote from Shakespeare, because you know in Elizabethan England the word "protest" meant also "I publicly declare" and he quoted to her "I protest my love to you" chop-chop and the conversation was cut short because the word "protest" was prohibited because of associations with Tiananmen, what I find so ridiculous is that if the guy were to be extremely vulgar and told the lady something like "I will fuck your brain out" everything would be okay, you quote Shakespeare...

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How do you use chop-chop in a sentence?

From TFV:"In order to be able to perform the landing they needed to update their software to give it optical navigation abilities ..."Imagine being part of the team that had to do that, fast, chop-chop, or else their billion dollar space mission would fail miserably.

What does chop-chop mean?

with rapid movements; "he works quickly"

What part of speech is chop-chop?

chop-chop is commonly used as adverb.