chopa

[choh-puh, chop-uh]

noun

plural

chopa ,

plural

chopas .

1. any of several fishes, especially of the sea chub family, Kyphosidae, and the nibbler family, Girellidae.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chopa¹

1880–85; < Spanish < Portuguese choupa < Latin clupea; clupeid

Example Sentences

Young Indians graduating from management schools “are voracious readers of nonfiction, they read to get a competitive edge,” says Krishan Chopa, chief editor for nonfiction at HarperCollins Publishers India. 

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As lascivious as a monkey, he had violated several of the little girls of the Casa del Cabrero, beating them into submission; he used to rob his father, a poverty-stricken cane-weaver, so that he might have money enough to visit some low brothel of Las Penuelas or on Chopa Street, where he found rouged dowagers with cigarette-stubs in their lips, who looked like princesses to him.

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