See Also: Chop-Chop - Poker(gambling)
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oxymoron (iou) and chop(5) (iou)


oxymoron (iou)



oxymoron noun. M17.
[Greek oxumoron use as noun of neut. sing. of oxumoros pointedly foolish, from oxus (see OXY-) + moros foolish (see MORON).]
A rhetorical figure of speech in which markedly contradictory terms appear in conjunction so as to emphasize the statement; gen. a contradiction in terms.
New Yorker That familiar oxymoron a weak tyrant.
oxymo'ronic adjective of or pertaining to an oxymoron; incongruous, self-contradictory: L20.
oxymo'ronically adverb E20.

chop(5) (iou)



chop noun5. Now rare or dial. exc. in chop and change below. L17.
[from CHOP verb2.]
An exchange, a barter.
chop and change a change, an alteration (usu. in pl.) (cf. CHOP verb2 2).