chop

chop
 n.— «A gay supply officer aboard a nuclear submarine based in Norfolk heard that Clinton was lifting the military’s ban on homosexuals.…”I thought the change was imminent, that it was just going to happen really quickly. I thought I was safe,” said the lieutenant, nicknamed “Chop” after the pork-chop-shaped gold pin worn by supply officers.» —“Sailor Who Disclosed Homosexuality Now Finds Himself in Legal Limb” by Joyce Murdoch Washington Post Feb. 8, 1993. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)