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First published 2005 (SND, online supplement).
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Quotation dates: 1985
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CHOOPER, v. To gear (someone) up to do something, eg a household task.Gsw. 1985 Anna Blair Tea at Miss Cranston's 112:
My mother was a wee thin-thin cratur but she took no snash off of us and had us all choopered up to wir jobs.
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