Alternative form of chopse. [(Midlands, Wales, Bermuda) To loudly insult and subject to verbal abuse; to berate.]
Used in a Sentence
chops
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for chops.
Editorial note
It's irritating enough that people have conditioned themselves to believe that farmers raise pork chops, not pigs.
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Quick take
Alternative form of chopse. [(Midlands, Wales, Bermuda) To loudly insult and subject to verbal abuse; to berate.]
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of chops gathered in one view.
(informal, by extension) One's skill at any endeavor; ability, talent; competency.
(slang) Jaws, lips, mouth.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for chops.
verb
Alternative form of chopse. [(Midlands, Wales, Bermuda) To loudly insult and subject to verbal abuse; to berate.]
noun
(informal, by extension) One's skill at any endeavor; ability, talent; competency.
noun
(slang) Jaws, lips, mouth.
noun
(originally US jazz slang) One's skill at musical interpretation and delivery; musical performance ability.
Example sentences
It's irritating enough that people have conditioned themselves to believe that farmers raise pork chops, not pigs.
With Tesla and SpaceX under his belt, he'd certainly got the necessary chops to tackle it.
Bonanza.com is looking for a full-stack developer with the chops to wrangle one of the largest Ruby/Rails apps on the planet.
It is but NO database has the chops to help you handle the business logic.
Hadley is a strange amalgam of academic rigor, entrepreneurial gut feel, and coding chops.
I was a little suspicious of PagerDuty's operational chops before, but now I simply don't trust them.
How many people who get Turing Awards in the next few decades will have learned their chops in a boot camp coding course?
For our team of animators who (by necessity, not by choice) picked up some coding chops on the job, it was a huge blessing.
I'm jealous of the author's chops - they know more about this than I do.
To add, * Good regexp chops in a scripting language.
Your client-side chops, though awesome, won’t help you here.
I have some chops, but I have nothing public in open source.
Quote examples
You'll see "or equivalent experience" but you'd be surprised at how many web startups using bootstrap will test you for data structures + algorithms chops.
In addition to having programming chops, a lot of their value actually comes from having spent time collecting good "widgets" of useful software they can use for new projects.
(Incidentally my original title was "[How] would you fire..", i.e., I have doubt about the very question.) The focus on programming chops underpinning your argument and clawing at a little pie instead of making the pie bigger suggest a narrowness of view that seems to be missing the bigger picture.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use chops in a sentence?
It's irritating enough that people have conditioned themselves to believe that farmers raise pork chops, not pigs.
What does chops mean?
Alternative form of chopse. [(Midlands, Wales, Bermuda) To loudly insult and subject to verbal abuse; to berate.]
What part of speech is chops?
chops is commonly used as verb, noun.