chope - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
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From Malay chup (“a cry in a game requesting a halt or the retraction of a stroke”), possibly from Hindi चुप (cup, “silence!”).
chope (third-person singular simple present chopes, present participle choping, simple past and past participle choped)
- (transitive, informal, Singapore) To reserve (a place), such as a seat in a fast food restaurant, sometimes by placing a packet of tissue paper on it.
2022 May 15, Jonty Tan, The Local Immigrant, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, →ISBN:
Place a packet of tissues on a table and people will assume it is taken by someone in an act referred to as chope. Others may chope their table with a bag, knowing.
chope
- (with regards to gender): chitsh
From Alemannic German (Alsatian) Schoppe, which is related to schoppen (“to tuck”).
chope f (plural chopes)
- tankard, mug
- (colloquial) beer, quick beer, quick one (glass of beer)
- → Brazilian Portuguese: chope
See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.
chope
- inflection of choper:
- “chope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
chope m (plural chopes)
- gulp (the usual amount swallowed)
chope m (plural chopes)
- a good job, business or opportunity
chope m (plural chopes)
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, editor (2006–2013), “chope”, in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega [Dictionary of Dictionaries of the Galician language] (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Antón Luís Santamarina Fernández, Ernesto Xosé González Seoane, María Álvarez de la Granja, editors (2003–2018), “chope”, in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega
- Rosario Álvarez Blanco, editor (2014–2024), “chope”, in Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués (in Galician), Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega, →ISSN
Borrowed from French chope.[1][2]
- Hyphenation: cho‧pe
chope m (plural chopes)
- (Brazil) draft beer
- (Brazil, regional, Pará) a frozen dessert in a tube, freezepop, ice pop, freezie
- → Hunsrik: Schopp
From the name in Chopi, which refers to their use of bows and arrows.
chope m (uncountable)
- Chopi (a language spoken in Mozambique)
- ^ “chope”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2025
- ^ “chope”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2025