chop chop
Get on it
Chop chop is an imperative urging someone to hurry up or get moving: Chop chop, we're running late.
The reduplicated form suggests urgency.
It derives from a Cantonese expression meaning "quick" and entered English through pidgin spoken in Chinese ports.
- right nowAt the present moment
- this instantAt the present moment
- immediatelyWithout any pause
- brisklyIn a quick, energetic manner
- quicklyAt high speed
hurry · get a move on · shake a leg · promptly · apace · rapidly · fast · step on it · exclamation · swiftly · command · colloquialism · lickety-split · make it snappy · Cantonese · speedily · loanword · pidgin
- hurry uphurry, hurry up, rush, hustle, move it
- Speed Expressionsin a flash, quick as a flash, in no time, lickety-split, lickety split
- urgencyurgent, urgently, emergency, ASAP, stat
- Wireless Attacksevil twin, man-in-the-middle, eavesdropping, jamming, signal jamming
- exasperationugh, sigh, groan, argh, geez
- Chinglishlong time no see, no can do, lose face, give face