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CHOPSTICK
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Dictionary entry overview: What does chopstick mean?
• CHOPSTICK (noun)
The noun CHOPSTICK has 1 sense:
1. one of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with
Familiarity information: CHOPSTICK used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of a pair of slender sticks used as oriental tableware to eat food with
Classified under:
Nouns denoting man-made objects
Hypernyms ("chopstick" is a kind of...):
tableware (articles for use at the table (dishes and silverware and glassware))
Context examples
What the knitting was, I don't know, not being learned in that art; but it looked like a net; and as she worked away with those Chinese chopsticks of knitting-needles, she showed in the firelight like an ill-looking enchantress, baulked as yet by the radiant goodness opposite, but getting ready for a cast of her net by and by.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
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