A new word?

[Jonathan Lighter]

Quite an assumption.  But in this case I feel almost certain that "judo chop" was known among male pre-teens in NYC in 1959-60.  "Rabbit punch" was a synonym.

  "Karate chops" are post-_Goldfinger_ for the average Joe.

  JL

Matthew Gordon <gordonmj at MISSOURI.EDU> wrote:
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FWIW "judo chop" is used by Austin Powers. Presumably the screenwriters took
it from some real-life 60's source.


On 8/17/06 2:51 PM, "Jesse Sheidlower" wrote:

> 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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