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chefnap en · VERB

Etymology

From chef + -nap.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To abduct or kidnap a chef.
   • What happens when People's Republic master chef Uncle Ho accepts an invitation to Washington, thanks to Henry Kissinger, to prepare a delectable multi-course Chinese dinner for East-West negotiations? You can bet it's more than birds' nest soup. Little do Uncle Ho or government officials suspect that there's a chefnapping in the fortune cookie. The plotters are an unlikely bunch of zanies in Paramus, New Jersey, who happen to be the proprietors of the Mandarin Pleasure Gardens, a spot of high kitsch and rotten cuisine. 1975, The Publishers Weekly, Volume 208, volume 208, F. Leypoldt, page 95:
   • “Pupa, put those delicious ribs down! Goddammit, I hate this stupid Rib Fest. There's nowhere to park, they play rib jams all day, and some guy who's not me always wins the "Best Ribs" competition! Why can't Korvo be a winner for once?” “You know, Korvo, you could take some barbecue classes at The Learning Annex or watch some YouTube videos, chefnap Paula Deen--” “Kidnapping people takes too long, I'll just use sci-fi shit!” 2021 March 26, Ariel Ladensohn, “The Apple Pencil Pro” (5:30 from the start), in Solar Opposites, season 2, episode 6, spoken by Terry Opposites (Thomas Middleditch):
   • That Wodehouse Chap I think you have hit upon a brilliant new scheme in publishing Wodehouse on "chefnapping" (NATIONAL AFFAIRS, March 6). What better way to have readers become acquainted with authors they haven't sampled than with your vignettes? (Reviews on Wodehouse are usually "Wodehouse is Wodehouse," and we lazy souls need to be lured by something a bit more meaty.) 1961, Samuel Thurston Williamson, Raymond Moley, Malcolm Muir, Rex Smith, Joseph Becker Phillips, Newsweek, Volume 57, volume 57, Newsweek, Incorporated, page 2:

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