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To cut a chogi, also spelled choagy or chogie, is an English slang term meaning "Let's get out of here." It probably stems from Korean: cheogi or jeogi means "there" (it's opposite, yeogi, means "here"). and was picked up by U.S. soldiers during the Korean War. This is part of a complete episode.

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