Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Chops \Chops\ (ch[o^]ps), n. pl. [See {Chop} a jaw.]
   1. The jaws; also, the fleshy parts about the mouth.

   2. The sides or capes at the mouth of a river, channel,
      harbor, or bay; as, the chops of the English Channel.