chop up

In the five decades following Steven Spielberg’s groundbreaking masterpiece, most sharksploitation has been chopped up and diluted into chum, tossed into the water by careless, filmmaking fishermen.

Apple is concerned that when devices are stolen, rather than being reused elsewhere they are instead being chopped up into component parts - like screens, processors and batteries - which can then be sold on for repairs.

“They can also be chopped up, like you would chives, and then thrown into any kind of dish, raw or cooked.”

Its main role is to chop up old proteins into smaller chunks so they can be recycled to make new ones.

After some gruesome deaths gut their lives, Hal chops up the cursed toy and the brothers grow up estranged.