colloq. [f. CHOP sb.1 2 b.] To eat a chop.
1841. Mrs. Gore, Cecil, xx. I would rather have ‘chopped’ at the ‘Blue Posts’ as I once did, fifteen years before.
1887. Sala, in Morning News, 8 Feb., 7/3. I went one day, ever so many years ago, to ‘chop’ at the Cock.
Chop v.5 Anglo-Ind.: see under CHOP sb.5
