chopsocky
English
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]Punningly from chop suey (“stir-fried vegetable dish”), chop (“fighting blow”), and sock (“punch”). Coined by Variety magazine.
Noun
[edit]chopsocky (countable and uncountable, plural chopsockies)
- (uncountable, film, colloquial, sometimes derogatory) A genre of exaggerated martial arts films made primarily in Hong Kong and Taiwan during the 1960s and 1970s.
- 1983, Variety's Film Reviews: 1978-1980:
- Chopsocky actioner with standard fight scenes and atrocious dubbing.
- 2001, Lisa Morton, The Cinema of Tsui Hark:
- The chopsocky films garnered a small following in this country precisely because of their often-ludicrous dubbing and the unrealistically-hard smacking […]
- 2003, Gary D Rawnsley, Political Communications in Greater China:
- […] bad enough that we settle for the typical chopsocky fare or do we protest and demand more realistic portrayals […]
- (countable) An individual film of this kind.
