chopper
Americannoun
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a person or thing that chops.
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a short ax with a large blade, used for cutting up meat, fish, etc.; butcher's cleaver.
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a prehistoric implement made by striking flakes off one or both sides of a stone, considered the oldest known worked stone tool.
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Slang. choppers, the teeth.
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Informal. a helicopter.
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Slang. a motorcycle.
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a device for interrupting an electric current or a beam of light at regular intervals.
verb (used without object)
noun
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a small hand axe
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a butcher's cleaver
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a person or thing that cuts or chops
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an informal name for a helicopter
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a slang name for penis
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a device for periodically interrupting an electric current or beam of radiation to produce a pulsed current or beam See also vibrator
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a type of bicycle or motorcycle with very high handlebars and an elongated saddle
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a child's bicycle
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obsolete a sub-machine-gun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of chopper
1545–55; 1950–55 chopper for def. 5; chop 1 + -er 1
Example Sentences
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As Dodgers third baseman Max Muncy moved fluidly through a chopper at the edge of Camelback Ranch’s infield grass and made a running throw to first, his offseason work started to snap into place.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 3, 2026
"Besides having a massively full tummy, he didn't move around or try to slip into the river despite the noise of the drones and the chopper," he told News24.
From BBC ● May 3, 2026
The Coast Guard swimmer who jumped time and again from a chopper into the raging waters of the July 2025 Texas flood, saving 165 lives, was also honored.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Feb. 25, 2026
“The only thing you see is the chopper. Sometimes, you’re rotating because it’s a line, and you just see the chopper going around and around.”
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 13, 2026
A medic on the chopper looked for Lieutenant Carroll’s wound, but couldn’t find it.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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Her mother-in-law once offered to spend $50,000 on her teeth but, like Queen Elizabeth II, she stuck with her OG choppers.
From MarketWatch ● Apr. 17, 2026
"Preparation to supply more food and non-food relief items to the victims is underway," said Murkomen, adding: "Military and police choppers are on standby to transport the items."
From BBC ● Nov. 1, 2025
Her official Mikie Sherrill for New Jersey page even has the silhouette of a helicopter in the logo, while the choppers and the congresswoman in flight jacket feature prominently in the background of her sites.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 20, 2025
Once the pages are printed, they are trucked to a nearby bindery and fed into a whirring machine of conveyors, choppers and hot glue.
From New York Times ● Jun. 16, 2024
Lieutenant Doyle was yelling into the radio that the choppers were late.
From "Fallen Angels" by Walter Dean Myers
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