"slice and dice" meaning in English

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Verb

Forms: slices and dices [present, singular, third-person], slicing and dicing [participle, present], sliced and diced [participle, past], sliced and diced [past]
Head templates: {{en-verb|slice<> and dice<>}} slice and dice (third-person singular simple present slices and dices, present participle slicing and dicing, simple past and past participle sliced and diced)
  1. (transitive) To cut and chop to pieces. Tags: transitive
    Sense id: en-slice_and_dice-en-verb-hdZBiYjw
  2. (transitive, figurative) To rearrange or analyze in a number of different ways, often arbitrarily. Tags: figuratively, transitive
    Sense id: en-slice_and_dice-en-verb-er7Xp0GA Categories (other): English coordinated pairs, English entries with incorrect language header, English reduplications, Pages with 1 entry, Pages with entries Disambiguation of English coordinated pairs: 38 62 Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 11 89 Disambiguation of English reduplications: 18 82 Disambiguation of Pages with 1 entry: 15 85 Disambiguation of Pages with entries: 12 88

Inflected forms

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        "(transitive) To cut and chop to pieces."
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