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Noun: the chop
Usage: Brit, informal
  1. The termination of someone's employment (leaving them free to depart)
    - dismissal, dismission, discharge, firing, liberation, release, sack, sacking, heave-ho [informal], chuck [Brit, informal], the axe [informal], severance, the boot [informal]

Type of: conclusion, ending, termination

Encyclopedia: The chop

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The Dagda
the devil
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the fuzz
The Gambia
the Great Calamity
The Great Charter
the Great Compromiser
the Great Hunger