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slang, from AAVE

chopped

Meaning

  1. Unattractive.
  2. Used more broadly for anything disappointing or embarrassing.

“That haircut is chopped.”

Where it came from

Believed to come from African American English, where chopped chin described a weak or receding chin. TikTok stripped the anatomical meaning in the mid-2020s and turned chopped into a general put-down.

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