Also means
pork chops.
Chops as in
musical ability is a term most often heard in
drum corps and among
professional musicians (ie, college-age and up who are
music majors). Among this crowd, it is unusual for a
drummer to be reffered to as having chops, because of the
negative conotation of the word - most
musicians who play multiple
percussion instruments prefer to be called
percussionists, as a drummer is thought of as a
drum set player who can't read
music.
But anyways...
It's used as such: (spoken by a
drum corps musician who has been in a particular
corps for at least a year) "I've already got my chops, it's the
new guys who need to worry about whether or not they'll make the corps this year."