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Exaggerate vs Chopsocky - What's the difference?

exaggerate | chopsocky |

As a verb exaggerate

is to overstate, to describe more than is fact.

As a noun chopsocky is

(film|colloquial) a genre of exaggerated martial arts films made primarily in hong kong and taiwan during the 1960s and 1970s.

exaggerate

English

Verb

(exaggerat)
  • To overstate, to describe more than is fact.
    • I've told you a billion times not to exaggerate !
    He said he'd slept with hundreds of girls, but I know he's exaggerating . The real number is about ten.

    Synonyms

    * overexaggerate * overstate

    Antonyms

    * (overstate) downplay, understate

    Derived terms

    * exaggeratedly * exaggeratingly * exaggerative * exaggeratively * exaggerativeness * exaggerator * exaggeratory

    Related terms

    * exaggeration

    External links

    * * * English transitive verbs ----

    chopsocky

    English

    (wikipedia chopsocky)

    Noun

    (-)
  • (film, colloquial) 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...