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Chopped cheese

Chopped cheese, also chop cheese, is a New York City bodega sandwich of griddle-chopped ground beef, American cheese, and onions on a hero roll, credited to East Harlem's Hajji's (Blue Sky Deli) with disputed creators and 2016 mainstream fame.

Chopper (film)

Chopper is Andrew Dominik's 2000 Australian biographical crime film starring Eric Bana as criminal Mark 'Chopper' Read; a box-office number one and multi-award winner, re-released in 2021 and 2025.

Chopping Mall

Chopping Mall (1986), originally released as Killbots, is a Jim Wynorski horror comedy in which lightning-fried mall security robots hunt trapped teenagers at the Sherman Oaks Galleria; a Corman production that flopped, was retitled, and became a cult favorite.

Chopsticks (筷子)

Chopsticks (筷子, anciently 箸) are paired eating sticks invented in China, in documented use since the Shang dynasty and common worldwide: about three in ten people eat with them, with distinct Chinese, Japanese, and Korean styles.

Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga (चोर निकल के भागा)

Chor Nikal Ke Bhaga (चोर निकल के भागा) is a 2023 Hindi heist-hijack thriller on Netflix, directed by Ajay Singh, starring Yami Gautam and Sunny Kaushal, released 24 March 2023, runtime 110 minutes.

Chora Church

The Chora Church, now the Kariye Mosque in Istanbul, was the main church of a Byzantine monastery, celebrated for its early 14th-century mosaics and frescoes.

Chora Church mosaics and frescoes

The Chora Church mosaics and frescoes, created in Istanbul between about 1316 and 1321 under Theodore Metochites, are among the finest surviving Late Byzantine decoration.

Chora Me Liga (João Bosco & Vinicius song)

"Chora, me liga" is a sertanejo universitário song by the Brazilian duo João Bosco & Vinícius, written by Euler Coelho and released in 2009 on the album Curtição.

Choral festival

A choral festival is an organized public event where choirs perform in graded competition before adjudicators, or as a non-competitive showcase with workshops and shared concerts.

Choral lyric

Choral lyric is ancient Greek sung poetry performed by a chorus rather than a soloist, flourishing from the 7th century BCE, with Pindar its leading poet.

Chord (music)

Chord (music): three or more distinct pitches sounded together, the basic unit of Western harmony, built mostly by stacking thirds into triads (major, minor, diminished, augmented) with inversions, extensions, and suspension variants.

Chord Overstreet

Chord Overstreet (Chord Paul Overstreet, born 1989, Nashville) is an American actor and singer-songwriter, son of songwriter Paul Overstreet; played Sam Evans on Glee and released the billion-stream single Hold On.

Chord progression

A chord progression, also called a chord change, is a series of chords played one after another, forming the harmonic backbone of a piece or song.

Choreography

Choreography (Greek khoreia + -graphy) is the art of designing and arranging dance movements and, originally, their written notation. Covers the choreographic process, Labanotation, copyright, evaluation, and institutions; distinct from improvisation and from performance itself.

Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (चोरी चोरी चुपके चुपके)

Chori Chori Chupke Chupke (चोरी चोरी चुपके चुपके) is a 2001 Hindi romantic drama directed by Abbas–Mustan, starring Salman Khan, Rani Mukerji, and Preity Zinta in a surrogacy love-triangle story, released 9 March 2001 and caught in the Bharat Shah underworld-funding case.

Chori Mera Kaam (चोरी मेरा काम)

Chori Mera Kaam (चोरी मेरा काम) is a 1975 Hindi comedy film directed by Brij, starring Ashok Kumar, Shashi Kapoor, Zeenat Aman, and Pran; Deven Verma won a 1976 Filmfare Award for it. Distinct from the 1978 Pakistani film of the same name.

Chorizo

Chorizo (Portuguese chouriço) is a paprika-seasoned pork sausage from Iberia. Spanish chorizo is cured and eaten sliced; Mexican chorizo is fresh, chile-colored, and crumbled and cooked before eating.

Chork (film)

Chork is an upcoming British drama film directed by Shane Meadows and co-written with Jack Thorne, following two foster siblings fleeing along England's eastern coast.

Chorlton and the Wheelies

Chorlton and the Wheelies: British stop-motion children's series by Cosgrove Hall for Thames Television, ITV, 1976-1979. Happiness dragon Chorlton foils the witch Fenella in Wheelie World; about 40 episodes.

Chorus line

Chorus line: a line of dancers or singers performing together on stage, descended from the ancient Greek khoros. Best known through A Chorus Line, the 1975 Pulitzer-winning Broadway musical about chorus dancers.

Chosen

Chosen (stylized CH:OS:EN) is a 2013-2014 Crackle action-thriller web series by Ben Ketai and Ryan Lewis, starring Milo Ventimiglia as lawyer Ian Mitchell, forced by The Watchers into a deadly assassination game; 3 seasons, 18 episodes.

Chosen (2022 TV series)

Chosen (2022) is a Danish Netflix sci-fi teen drama, six episodes of about 44 minutes, created by Jannik Tai Mosholt and Christian Potalivo, about a 17-year-old girl uncovering the truth behind a meteor crash in her town; distinct from the biblical series The Chosen.

Chosen Few Picnic & Festival

The Chosen Few Picnic & Festival, also the Chosen Few DJs Picnic, is an annual house music festival held in Jackson Park on Chicago's South Side since 1990.

Choti Sarrdaarni

Choti Sarrdaarni is an Indian television serial starring Nimrit Kaur Ahluwalia as Meher, a young Punjabi woman forced into marriage with a widowed politician while pregnant by her lover, which ran from 2019 to 2022.

Chotti Bahu

Chotti Bahu (छोटी बहू) is a Hindi Zee TV drama starring Rubina Dilaik and Avinash Sachdev, season 1 2008-2010 (469 episodes), season 2 2011-2012 (332 episodes), about Dev, Radhika, and Vishakha.

Chotushkone

Chotushkone (চতুষ্কোণ) is a 2014 Bengali thriller directed by Srijit Mukherji, starring Aparna Sen, Chiranjeet, Goutam Ghose, and Parambrata as four directors making short films on death.

ChouCho

ChouCho (ちょうちょ) is a Japanese singer from Suita, Osaka, known for anime theme songs including Hyouka and Girls und Panzer, who debuted on Lantis in 2011.

Chouquette

Chouquette: small French unfilled choux pastry puff, about 2-3 cm, topped with pearl sugar (sucre perlé) before baking; eaten at breakfast or le goûter; part of the pâte à choux family with éclairs and gougères.

Choux pastry

Choux pastry (pâte à choux) is a twice-cooked French dough of water, butter, flour, and eggs, leavened only by steam; base of éclairs, profiteroles, gougères, and croquembouche.

Chow mein

Chow mein (炒麵, "stir-fried noodles") is a Cantonese noodle dish brought to America by Gold Rush-era immigrants. Distinct from lo mein by wok-frying, it split into East Coast crispy, West Coast soft, and sandwich variants.