chope

Malay chup (“a cry in a game requesting a halt or the retraction of a stroke”), possibly from Hindi चुप (cup, “silence!”).

• IPA^(key): /t͡ʃəʊp/
• Rhymes: -əʊp

chope (third-person singular simple present chopes, present participle choping, simple past and past participle choped)

1. (Singapore, informal, transitive) To reserve a place, such as a seat in a fast food restaurant, sometimes by placing a packet of tissue paper on it.
   • 2022 May 15, Jonty Tan, The Local Immigrant, Marshall Cavendish International Asia Pte Ltd, →ISBN:

     Place a packet of tissues on a table and people will assume it is taken by someone in an act referred to as chope. Others may chope their table with a bag, knowing.

• Poche, epoch, poché

chope

1. grandmother

• (with regards to gender): chitsh

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔp/

From Alemannic German (Alsatian) Schoppe.

chope f (plural chopes)

1. tankard, mug
2. (colloquial) beer, quick beer, quick one (glass of beer)

• → Brazilian Portuguese: chope

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

chope

1. inflection of choper:
   1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
   2. second-person singular imperative

• “chope”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• poche, poché

• IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɔpe̝/

chope m (plural chopes)

1. gulp (the usual amount swallowed)

chope m (plural chopes)

1. a good job, business or opportunity

chope m (plural chopes)

1. marsh, fen

• “chope” in Dicionario de Dicionarios da lingua galega, SLI - ILGA 2006–2013.
• “chope” in Tesouro informatizado da lingua galega. Santiago: ILG.
• “chope” in Álvarez, Rosario (coord.): Tesouro do léxico patrimonial galego e portugués, Santiago de Compostela: Instituto da Lingua Galega.

Borrowed from French chope.[1][2]

• Hyphenation: cho‧pe

chope m (plural chopes)

1. (Brazil) draft beer

   Synonyms: (Center and South of Portugal) imperial, (North of Portugal) fino

2. (Brazil) a frozen dessert in a tube, freezepop, ice pop, freezie

   Synonyms: (Brazil) geladinho, (Brazil) gelinho, (Brazil) dindim, (Brazil) sacolé, (Brazil) chup-chup

• → Hunsrik: Schopp

(This etymology is missing or incomplete. Please add to it, or discuss it at the Etymology scriptorium.)

chope m (uncountable)

1. Chopi (a language spoken in Mozambique)