What is Chop Shop?
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(n.) A garage that specialises in buying hot (recently stolen) cars and disassembling them to sell the parts individually, where they are vitually untraceable. Many parts will find themselves in west Africa, where they are then sold across the internet witht he claim that they were taken from wrecks. Since the laws regarding reporting wrecks in this part of the world are somewhat obscure, and unco-operative witht he rest of the world, reclaiming the parts, even if you can prove it is yours is very difficult.
The convertable BMW 3.25 was stolen in the early hours of the morning and is probably in a chop shop by now.
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A place where stolen cars are disassembled for parts that are then sold.
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Verb. To disassemble something to use the parts individually, or to take out parts to repair something. Can be used to refer to anything, such as electronics and others, but is derived from the noun "chop shop", where stolen cars had their parts removed in order to sell it or use in a different vehicle
A thief chop shopped David's Skyline and sold the motor for 45 long.
The air conditioning is sucking up valuable horsepower, so I'm going to chop shop it.
Don't tell anyone, but I chop shopped Mark's computer and I'm going to sell his hard drive for 35 bucks.
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An abortion clinic
Had to take Sandy to the chop shop to get that taken care off
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See also:
Casa de Barnes;
we'll meet at the chop shop
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An abortion clinic, or establishment where the abortion of a unwanted pregnancy might occur
Man, that bitch is pregnant? You better take her ass to the chop shop!
