Adjective

(er)

(of the surface of water) Having many small, rough waves.

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Discontinuous, intermittent.

The sound is choppy in this video.

Adjective

(er)

(dated) Inclined to talk shop; full of jargon.

* Elizabeth Gaskell

I don't like shoppy people. I think we are far better off, knowing only cottagers and labourers, and people without pretence.

* 1890 , Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland, A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon and Cant

When golfers get together their talk is more unutterably shoppy than even that of hunters, cricketers, or racing men.

* 1900 , Macmillan's Magazine

A novel of clerical life written by a clergyman is apt to be what is vulgarly called shoppy , to dwell upon details which may interest other clergymen

* 1987 , Carol Groneman, Mary Beth Norton, "To Toil the Livelong Day": America's Women at Work, 1780-1980

Standish had a mind that "seldom wandered from the shop and things shoppy ,"

(rare) Of the kind or quality expected from a shop.

* 1898 , H G Wells, The Man Who Could Work Miracles

For instance, he had three eggs for breakfast; two his landlady had supplied, good, but shoppy , and one was a delicious fresh goose-egg, laid, cooked, and served by his extraordinary will.

(colloquial, dated) Abounding with shops.