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Chopper on.

A person with a fit of “the blues” and intensely miserable is thus described. It is a slang expression sometimes used by printers.

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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.

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Cheque papers.
Chill.
Chinese paper.
Chinese white.
Choked.
Chopper on.
Chromograph.
Chromo-lithography.
Circled corrections.
Circles.
Circuit edges.