A new word?

[Jesse Sheidlower]

On Thu, Aug 17, 2006 at 02:47:19PM -0500, Jim Parish wrote:
> Fred Shapiro wrote, of "karate":
> > I posted this here in 2004, then someone whose identity is masked in the
> > archives contributed a slightly earlier 1947 citation, which then was
> > pushed back slightly more within 1947 by Sam Clements.
>
> I remember a time - probably in the early to mid-sixties - when a certain
> martial-arts move was popularly known as a "judo chop"; the phrase
> was later corrected to "karate chop". I haven't heard or seen either
> phrase in a long time. Does anyone have any data on their heydays?

Always "karate chop" on Long Island in the early '80s.

"Judo chop" is weird, as judo doesn't have chops as such.

Jesse Sheidlower
OED

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