title: Chop
text: # Chop
  
  Chop, CHOP, Chops, or CHOPS may refer to:
  
  ## Art
  
  * Embouchure, in music, a synonym for chops (and later, more broadly, musical skill or ability)
  * CHOPS, an Asian-American hip hop producer, rapper and member of rap group Mountain Brothers
  * Chops (Euros Childs album), 2006
  * Chops (Joe Pass album), 1978
  
  ## Medicine
  
  * Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, one of the largest and oldest children's hospitals in the world
  * CHOP (chemotherapy), a chemotherapy treatment for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
  * DNA damage-inducible transcript 3, a genetic protein also known as "CHOP", for "C/EBP-homologous protein"
  
  ## Sports
  
  * Knifehand strike, also known as the karate chop, a fast and focused strike with the side of the hand
  * Chop (wrestling), offensive move in professional wrestling, used to set up an opponent for a submission hold or for a throw
  * Chops (juggling), a juggling pattern using three balls or clubs
  * Chopping the blinds, in poker, when all players fold to the blinds, who then remove their bets
  * Backspin, a shot such that the ball rotates backwards after it is hit, especially in table tennis or other racket sports
  
  ## Other
  
  * Chop, Zakarpattia Oblast, a small city in Ukraine
  * Meat chop, a cut of meat usually containing a rib and served as an individual portion
  * Chop (fiberglass), a form of fiberglass
  * Cold heavy oil production with sand, a technique for extracting difficult heavy crude oil where sand is used to enhance the productivity of the oil well
  * Seal (East Asia), or "chop" colloquially, used in China, Japan, and other parts of East Asia to prove identity (typically on documents or art in East Asia)
  * Mutton chops, a colloquial term for sideburns
  * Capitol Hill Occupied Protest, a short-lived self-proclaimed autonomous zone in Seattle
  