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first-chop - definition and meaning
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Old Beeswax thinks that if he can get me up to swear that he and his crew are real first-chop hands, that will hit the governor hard.
The Duke's Children 2004
‘Who ever heard of a horse being trained in a tent before? — not but what he looks first-chop .’
Robbery Under Arms 2004
Both their suits were first-chop , never mind what the cost had added to the mortgage under which Saxtorph Ventures labored.
Inconstant Star Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1991
Me makee he first-chop fashion, about the glate Ping Wing;
Grace Harlowe's Overland Riders on the Great American Desert Jessie Graham [pseud.] Flower
"I'll get you a first-chop horse, Bill," said Joe.
Wild Bill's Last Trail Ned Buntline
London is simply teeming with first-chop , unwritten plays.
Bliss, and Other Stories 1920
And in time you may become a first-chop operator, which I'm not and never will be; but if you do,
The Lone Wolf A Melodrama Louis Joseph Vance 1906
He tells everywhere that he keeps a "first-chop " house.
Indian Tales Rudyard Kipling 1900
He tells everywhere that he keeps a "first-chop " house.
Plain Tales from the Hills Rudyard Kipling 1900
"For real, first-class A, No. 1, first-chop poetry that can't be beat."
The Rover Boys on Treasure Isle or The Strange Cruise of the Steam Yacht. Edward Stratemeyer 1896
Gammerstang commented on the word first-chop
(adjective) - The phrase was once used all through the United States as a synonym for "first-rate." The word chop is Chinese for "quality." --Henry Reddall's Fact, Fancy, and Fable, 1889
April 23, 2018