chopper

[chop-er]

noun

1. a person or thing that chops. chop.

2. a short ax with a large blade, used for cutting up meat, fish, etc.; butcher's cleaver.

3. a prehistoric implement made by striking flakes off one or both sides of a stone, considered the oldest known worked stone tool.

4. Slang.,  choppers, the teeth.

5. Informal.,  a helicopter.

6. Slang.,  a motorcycle.

7. a device for interrupting an electric current or a beam of light at regular intervals.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal.

   1. to travel by helicopter.

      We choppered into midtown from the airport.

   2. to travel by motorcycle.

chopper

/ ˈtʃɒpə /

noun

1. a small hand axe

2. a butcher's cleaver

3. a person or thing that cuts or chops

4. an informal name for a helicopter

5. a slang name for penis

6. a device for periodically interrupting an electric current or beam of radiation to produce a pulsed current or beam See also vibrator

7. a type of bicycle or motorcycle with very high handlebars and an elongated saddle

8. a child's bicycle

9. obsolete,  a sub-machine-gun

chopper

1. A crudely flaked, unifacial core tool, especially one associated with the Oldowan stone culture of the early Paleolithic Period.

Word History and Origins

Origin of chopper¹

1545–55; 1950–55 chopper for def. 5; chop ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

"Five more minutes, and I would have left you," the pilot tells the reporters as they clamber back in, the chopper stuttering up and banking over the town's remains.

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"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."

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An inning later he made a quick turn on a chopper from Daulton Varsho to start one of three double plays he was involved with.

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"And no-one went to the spot that the chopper was hovering over until later that day when the police arrived."

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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.

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