This is the reason for having a Word of the Day Calendar:

Chopstick - In some dialects of Cantonese, xiap, pronounced "chop," means "hurry." The reduplicated phrase xiap-xiap (sometimes spelled ciap-ciap), which has also entered Engish, thus means "hurry hurry." Westerners who saw Chinese eating speedily with their wooden kuai za, which, curiously, means something very close to "hurry sticks," coined "chopstick." (They are very comma happy)

Apparently I'm dumb for nevering having realized that "chop chop" comes from Chinese, but it still blows my mind.