"chop-shop" meaning in English

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        "Alternative form of chop shop"
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      "form": "chop-shops",
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    {
      "form": "chop-shopping",
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        "participle",
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    {
      "form": "chop-shopped",
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        "participle",
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  "pos": "verb",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "2007, Eric Jerome Dickey, Waking with Enemies",
          "text": "Look, the car will be clean. If you're not comfortable, you could chop-shop it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Michael Eury, Michael Kronenberg, The Batcave Companion, page 71",
          "text": "Sleeker, faster \"muscle cars\" were the rage, and so when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz updated Batman in 1964, the Batmobile—the tank-like sedan with a bat-head grille—was chop-shopped into a sportier model.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mary Jane Jacob, Michelle Grabner, The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists, page 53",
          "text": "On the concrete floor were distributed groups of fenders, doors, sections of roof, hoods, and other more or less \"prime cuts\" of chop-shopped automobiles carefully sorted by finish and hue, ...",
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        }
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      "glosses": [
        "To cut apart a car in a chop shop, either to sell as parts or to alter its appearance."
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        {
          "ref": "2004, New York - Volume 37, page 16",
          "text": "He's considered something of a scold on Wall Street, a hectoring moralist who rails against the business practices of his rivals— an old-economy guy known more for building businesses than chop-shopping them for parts, a brilliant crank with a nearly unbroken string of successful investments.",
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        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Raja Alem -, My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca, page xii",
          "text": "Plus I moved the paragraph from its original place in the manuscript to another place hundreds of pages away. In short, I chop-shopped it.",
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        "To cut something apart and restructure it."
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        "(by analogy) To cut something apart and restructure it."
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  "word": "chop-shop"
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          "ref": "2007, Eric Jerome Dickey, Waking with Enemies",
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2009, Michael Eury, Michael Kronenberg, The Batcave Companion, page 71",
          "text": "Sleeker, faster \"muscle cars\" were the rage, and so when DC Comics editor Julius Schwartz updated Batman in 1964, the Batmobile—the tank-like sedan with a bat-head grille—was chop-shopped into a sportier model.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2010, Mary Jane Jacob, Michelle Grabner, The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists, page 53",
          "text": "On the concrete floor were distributed groups of fenders, doors, sections of roof, hoods, and other more or less \"prime cuts\" of chop-shopped automobiles carefully sorted by finish and hue, ...",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
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      ],
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          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "2007, Raja Alem -, My Thousand and One Nights: A Novel of Mecca, page xii",
          "text": "Plus I moved the paragraph from its original place in the manuscript to another place hundreds of pages away. In short, I chop-shopped it.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "To cut something apart and restructure it."
      ],
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        "(by analogy) To cut something apart and restructure it."
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  "word": "chop-shop"
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