chopper

American  

[chop-er] / ˈtʃɒp ər /

noun

• choppers
  plural

1. a person or thing that chops.

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.

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verb (used without object)

1. Informal.

   1. to travel by helicopter.

      We choppered into midtown from the airport.

   2. to travel by motorcycle.

chopper British  

/ 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

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chopper Scientific  

/ chŏp′ər /

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• choppers
  plural

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Etymology

Origin of chopper

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

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Example Sentences

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chopper choppers

Following Ortiz’s miscue, Tampa Bay collected four consecutive singles, ending with pinch hitter Ben Williamson’s walk-off chopper to score Nick Fortes from third.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 28, 2026

NBC4 reporter Eliana Moreno and pilot George Marciniw were killed in the crash along with 29-year-old Edy Gutierrez Mejia, who was on the ground when the chopper went down.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 6, 2026

Accidents involving professionals like the medical chopper crew, he said, are much rarer.

From Los Angeles Times ● Oct. 3, 2026

As the chopper circled Miami, the cameraman explained the purpose of the shoot: “Everybody and their mama wants to know where he’s going to play ball next year.”

From The Wall Street Journal ● May 10, 2026

I was hired to sell a miracle vegetable chopper on the boardwalk in Atlantic City, New Jersey.

From "Milkweed" by Jerry Spinelli

Lynn got on the radio and, as the other three choppers kept their position, Lynn asked him to stick to “one of the corners.”

From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 19, 2026

Many of the choppers are heading to the Hamptons.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 18, 2026

"It rained all night, but we stayed put till the choppers came for us," he added.

From Barron's ● Aug. 27, 2026

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

It was a sad scene when the choppers came to take us away.

From "The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien

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