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Examples of chop shop in a Sentence
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After arresting and questioning the chop shop owner, the Miami-Dade State Attorney’s Office said, investigators followed the trail of Baumgardner and Vera Moran.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
What started with a chop shop bust in Doral took investigators to an Allapattah building with a 70-year-old auto tag agency and a clerk accused of running a $3 million car title fraud.
—David J. Neal, Miami Herald, 20 May 2024
During the 1980s and 1990s, a number of perfectly beautiful Daytona berlinettas were butchered by Sawzall-wielding chop shops to create close replicas of the original spiders.
—Robert Ross, Robb Report, 12 Feb. 2024
Seth finds success there but also realizes that his firm is a chop shop that essentially scams investors.
—Lillian Brown, Vulture, 3 Oct. 2023
For money, Georgie and Ali steal bicycles and sell them to some kind of bike chop shop.
—Odie Henderson, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Sep. 2023
Mike Tyson is playing an arms-dealing, chop shop–owning gangster.
—Nick Romano, EW.com, 5 May 2022
Dunkins pleaded guilty to the three counts in exchange for having two third-degree burglary charges and an additional operating chop shop charge dropped.
—Perry Vandell, The Arizona Republic, 2 Mar. 2022
Anyone with information about the chop shop is asked to contact the department.
—Hojun Choi, Dallas News, 5 Aug. 2021
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Word History
First Known Use
1977, in the meaning defined above
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“Chop shop.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chop%20shop. Accessed 10 Jun. 2024.
Kids Definition
chop shop
noun
: a place where stolen automobiles are stripped for salable parts
Legal Definition
chop-shop
nounˈchäp-ˌshäp
: a place where stolen automobiles are stripped of salable parts
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