get the chop

English

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Verb

get the chop (third-person singular simple present gets the chop, present participle getting the chop, simple past got the chop, past participle (UK) got the chop or (US) gotten the chop)

  1. (idiomatic) To be dismissed from employment.
  2. (idiomatic) To be eliminated from a competition.

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