the chop
Getting cut from a category by the judges, eliminated, sent home.
Definitions
Being eliminated from a category at a ball. The judges decide you're not advancing and they let you know, often with a hand-chop motion and a flat 'thank you, but that's a chop.' Brutal, public, instant. To get the chop is to be sent off the floor; to chop someone is to cut them.
the chop In A Sentence
Origin & Usage
Ball culture; the standard term for judge elimination in a category.
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