Chop
# Chop

Chop, CHOP, Chops, or CHOPS may refer to:

## Art

* Embouchure, in music, a synonym for chops (and later, more broadly, musical skill or ability)
* CHOPS, an Asian-American hip hop producer, rapper and member of rap group Mountain Brothers
* Chops (Euros Childs album), 2006
* Chops (Joe Pass album), 1978

## Medicine

* Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world
* CHOP (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
* DNA damage-inducible transcript 3, a genetic protein also known as "CHOP", for "C/EBP-homologous protein"

## Sports

* Knifehand strike, also known as the karate chop, a fast and focused strike with the side of the hand
* Chop (wrestling), offensive move in professional wrestling, used to set up an opponent for a submission hold or for a throw
* Chops (juggling), a juggling pattern using three balls or clubs
* Chopping the blinds, in poker, when all players fold to the blinds, who then remove their bets
* Backspin, a shot such that the ball rotates backwards after it is hit, especially in table tennis or other racket sports

## Other

* Chop, Zakarpattia Oblast, a small city in Ukraine
* Meat chop, a cut of meat usually containing a rib and served as an individual portion
* Chop (fiberglass), a form of fiberglass
* Cold heavy oil production with sand, a technique for extracting difficult heavy crude oil where sand is used to enhance the productivity of the oil well
* Seal (East Asia), or "chop" colloquially, used in China, Japan, and other parts of East Asia to prove identity (typically on documents or art in East Asia)
* Mutton chops, a colloquial term for sideburns
* Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, a short-lived self-proclaimed autonomous zone in Seattle
