"break one's chops" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "breaks one's chops",
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        "singular",
        "third-person"
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    },
    {
      "form": "breaking one's chops",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broke one's chops",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broken one's chops",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
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        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> one's chops"
      },
      "expansion": "break one's chops (third-person singular simple present breaks one's chops, present participle breaking one's chops, simple past broke one's chops, past participle broken one's chops)",
      "name": "en-verb"
    }
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1960, Lenny Bruce, 1:26 from the start, in The Palladium:",
          "text": "“And why don’t you stop breaking my chops, eh?”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give someone a hard time, harass, nag one to do something, bother."
      ],
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        [
          "give someone a hard time",
          "give someone a hard time"
        ],
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ],
        [
          "nag",
          "nag"
        ],
        [
          "bother",
          "bother"
        ]
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(idiomatic, slang) To give someone a hard time, harass, nag one to do something, bother."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "bust someone's chops"
        },
        {
          "word": "break one's balls"
        }
      ],
      "tags": [
        "idiomatic",
        "slang"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "break one's chops"
}

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  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "breaks one's chops",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "breaking one's chops",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broke one's chops",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "broken one's chops",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    }
  ],
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        "1": "break<,,broke,broken> one's chops"
      },
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    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "verb",
  "related": [
    {
      "word": "bust someone's chops"
    },
    {
      "word": "break one's balls"
    }
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        {
          "ref": "1960, Lenny Bruce, 1:26 from the start, in The Palladium:",
          "text": "“And why don’t you stop breaking my chops, eh?”",
          "type": "quote"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To give someone a hard time, harass, nag one to do something, bother."
      ],
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        ],
        [
          "harass",
          "harass"
        ],
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          "nag",
          "nag"
        ],
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          "bother",
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        "(idiomatic, slang) To give someone a hard time, harass, nag one to do something, bother."
      ],
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        "idiomatic",
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  "word": "break one's chops"
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