chop-chop

adverb

ˌchäp-ˈchäp 

ˈchäp-ˈchäp

: without delay : quickly

Synonyms

• apace
• briskly
• double-quick
• fast
• fleetly
• full tilt
• hastily
• hell-for-leather
• hot
• lickety-split
• posthaste
• presto
• pronto
• quick
• quickly
• rapidly
• snappily
• soon
• speedily
• swift
• swiftly

Examples of chop-chop in a Sentence

I need this project done chop-chop

Word History

Etymology

Chinese Pidgin English, reduplication of chop fast

First Known Use

1834, in the meaning defined above