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Quickly repeating meat dish (4,4)

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chop chop

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'quickly' is the definition.
(I know that quickly can be written as chop-chop)

'repeating meat dish' is the wordplay.
'repeating' shows that letters should be duplicated.
'meat dish' becomes 'chop' (I am not sure about this - if you are sure you should believe this answer much more).
'chop' duplicated is 'CHOP-CHOP'.

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(Other definitions for chop chop that I've seen before include "with expedition" , "Hurry up!" , "Quick" , "repeated punches" , "Get a move on" .)

I've seen this clue in The Daily Express.
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