This little reduplicated term has its origins in the South China Sea, as a Pidgin English version of the Chinese term k'wÃ¢i-k'wÃ¢i. The earliest known citation of chop-chop in print is from the English language newspaper that was printed in Canton in the early 19th century - The Canton Register, 13th May 1834:
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