chopa

[ choh-puh, chop-uh ]

noun

, plural (especially collectively) cho·pa, (especially referring to two or more kinds or species) cho·pas.

1. any of several fishes, especially of the sea chub family, Kyphosidae, and the nibbler family, Girellidae.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chopa¹

1880–85; < Spanish < Portuguese choupa < Latin clupea; clupeid

Example Sentences

Young Indians graduating from management schools “are voracious readers of nonfiction, they read to get a competitive edge,” says Krishan Chopa, chief editor for nonfiction at HarperCollins Publishers India. 

From New York Times

As lascivious as a monkey, he had violated several of the little girls of the Casa del Cabrero, beating them into submission; he used to rob his father, a poverty-stricken cane-weaver, so that he might have money enough to visit some low brothel of Las Penuelas or on Chopa Street, where he found rouged dowagers with cigarette-stubs in their lips, who looked like princesses to him.

From Project Gutenberg