Dictionary

chopsocky en · NOUN

Etymology

Punningly from chop suey (“stir-fried vegetable dish”), chop (“fighting blow”), and sock (“punch”). Coined by Variety magazine.

Meanings

1. (colloquial, derogatory, sometimes, uncountable) A genre of exaggerated martial arts films made primarily in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1960s and 1970s.
   • Chopsocky actioner with standard fight scenes and atrocious dubbing. 1983, Variety's Film Reviews: 1978-1980:
   • The chopsocky films garnered a small following in this country precisely because of their often-ludicrous dubbing and the unrealistically-hard smacking […] 2001, Lisa Morton, The Cinema of Tsui Hark:
   • […] bad enough that we settle for the typical chopsocky fare or do we protest and demand more realistic portrayals […] 2003, Gary D Rawnsley, Political Communications in Greater China:
2. (countable) An individual film of this kind.

Forms