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chop shop

noun as in bucket shop

Weak match

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Kyle Camp's gang stole vehicles to order across Greater Manchester, which were then dismantled in chop shops and sold abroad.

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A man has been arrested after police found 18 stolen cars worth more than £436,000 at a suspected "chop shop".

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It grew through the pandemic, as many encampments did, but then about two years ago turned into a full-blown “chop shop,” he says.

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Councilmember Joe Buscaino, who introduced the motion last fall, said chop shops have become a pervasive problem in the city, and a new ordinance was needed to help Los Angeles police officers address it.

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In 2017, the Bald and Golden Eagle Protection Act was among laws invoked when authorities broke up what a federal prosecutor in South Dakota called ″a chop shop for eagles.”

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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