chop shop

noun

Informal.

1. a garage where stolen cars are dismantled so that their parts can be sold separately.

Example Sentences

Kyle Camp's gang stole vehicles to order across Greater Manchester, which were then dismantled in chop shops and sold abroad.

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A man has been arrested after police found 18 stolen cars worth more than £436,000 at a suspected "chop shop".

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It grew through the pandemic, as many encampments did, but then about two years ago turned into a full-blown “chop shop,” he says.

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Councilmember Joe Buscaino, who introduced the motion last fall, said chop shops have become a pervasive problem in the city, and a new ordinance was needed to help Los Angeles police officers address it.

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In 2017, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act was among laws invoked when authorities broke up what a federal prosecutor in South Dakota called ″a chop shop for eagles.”

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