From en.wiktionary.org:
[chop chop]
** English
[chop chop (phrase)]
*** Alternative forms
- [en]
*** Etymology
From [en], from [en]. Recorded in English since the 1830s (see citations for
adverb). Recorded as a Chinese term in 1795.[1]
*** Pronunciation
- [en]
- [en]
*** Interjection
[en-interj]
1. [en] [Used to urge someone to do something quickly .]
**** Translations
[hurry up]
- Arabic: [ar]
- Bengali: [bn] , [bn]
- Catalan: [ca]
- Chinese:
- Czech: [cs] , [cs]
- Dutch: [nl] !
- Finnish: [fi] , [fi] , [fi]
- French: vite- [fr] , [fr] [fr] , [fr] , et on [fr] , plus vite que ça !, on va pas [fr] là !
- German: zack [de] , dalli [de] , hopp [de]
- Greek: [el]
- Hindi: [hi]
- Hungarian: [hu]
- Italian: [it] , [it]
- Japanese: [ja]
- Korean: [ko]
- Lithuanian: [lt]
- Malagasy: [mg] , [mg]
- Polish: [pl] , [pl]
- Portuguese: [pt]
- Russian: [ru]
- Spanish: [es] , [es] , [es] [N Mexico]
- Swedish: [sv] , [sv] , [sv]
- Vietnamese: [vi] , [vi]
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- Czech: [cs]
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*** Adverb
[-]
1. [en] Quickly .
2. * [en]
3. * [en]
4. * {{ quote-text | en | year=1977 | author=w:John Le Carré | title=The Honourable Schoolboy | page=13 | publisher=Folio Society | year_published=2010
|passage=‘And another beer! But _cold_ this time, hear that, boy? _Muchee
coldee_, and bring it _CHOP CHOP_.’}}
**** Descendants
- [pt]
*** Noun
[-]
1. [en] Tobacco that is produced and sold without excise ( tax ), and therefore cheap and illegal.
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=1944 | author=w:Australian House of Representatives | title=Parliamentary Debates | volume=265 | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=BpMqAQAAIAAJ&q=%22chop-chop%22+tobacco+-intitle:%22chop-chop%22+-inauthor:%22%22&dq=%22chop-chop%22+tobacco+-intitle:%22chop-chop%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=xj0lT7_3NaKQiQeX27T2BA&redir_esc=y | page=30968
|passage=We are here today to try and do the impossible: to stop the CHOP CHOP
industry.}}
1. * 2002 November 11, _Major ‘ CHOP CHOP ’ seizure in Northern Queensland_ , 吴语: Australian Taxation Office , media release (see https://web.archive.org/web/20160310022549/https://www.ato.gov.au/corporate/content.asp?doc=%2Fcontent%2Fmr2002106.htm) .
2. * {{ quote-book | en | year=2007 | author=Martin Hughes | title=The Slow Guide: Melbourne | pageurl=http://books.google.com.au/books?id=XWnN1XKjRTkC&pg=PT95&dq=%22chop-chop%22+tobacco+-intitle:%22chop-chop%22+-inauthor:%22%22&hl=en&sa=X&ei=2j8lT8LbOc7trQebkoS4CA&redir_esc=y#v=onepage&q=%22chop-chop%22%20tobacco%20-intitle%3A%22chop-chop%22%20-inauthor%3A%22%22&f=false | page=unnumbered
|passage=Attitudes to tobacco mean it′s virtually sold under the counter (and
we′re not talking about ‘ CHOP CHOP’).}}
**** References
References:
[1]. Æneas Anderson. 1795. _A Narrative of the British Embassy to China_ , Basil: J.J. Tourneisen: [ Appendix ] "Glossary of Chinese Words": Chinese: chop-chop. English: To make haste.
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