chopper

[ chop-er ]

/ ˈtʃɒp ər /

noun

a person or thing that chops.

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

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

choppers, Slang. the teeth.

Informal. a helicopter.

Slang. a motorcycle.

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

verb (used without object)

Informal.

to travel by helicopter: We choppered into midtown from the airport.
to travel by motorcycle.

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Origin of chopper

1545–55; 1950–55 for def 5; chop¹ + -er¹

Words nearby chopper

chopine, choplogic, chopped, chopped liver, chopped steak, chopper, chopper tool, chopping block, choppy, chops, chopsteak

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By midday, the Ukrainian government had confirmed that two of its choppers had been downed.
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“They have choppers looking for them,” Sheriff Herrera says.
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The choppers, which had been sold to Syria by Russia in the early 1990s, had been undergoing a refit in Russia.
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Now they may lie in wait for choppers on rescue missions, says John Barry.
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Men were repairing fences, and doing other Winter work in the fields, and from the woods came the ringing staccato of choppers.
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There was a great bustle of getting under way as the teams started for the woods, and the choppers, too, went away.
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As he did so he seized an axe from the hand of one of the choppers and turned again on Seagrue.
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Brigades of choppers were opening roads here and there to deceive.
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The two choppers were kept busy from morning dawn to sunset.
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British Dictionary definitions for choppers

chopper

/ (ˈtʃɒpə) /

noun

mainly British a small hand axe

a butcher's cleaver

a person or thing that cuts or chops

an informal name for a helicopter

mainly British a slang name for penis

a device for periodically interrupting an electric current or beam of radiation to produce a pulsed current or beamSee also vibrator (def. 2)

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

NZ a child's bicycle

obsolete, slang, mainly US a sub-machine-gun

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Scientific definitions for choppers

chopper

[ chŏp′ər ]

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

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