chopper

[ chop-er ]

/ ˈtʃɒp ər /

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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

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How to use chopper in a sentence

You can hear the choppers descending even if you have never set foot in the country.
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By midday, the Ukrainian government had confirmed that two of its choppers had been downed.
Eastern Ukraine Explodes, Russian Invasion Grows More Likely|Jamie Dettmer|May 2, 2014|DAILY BEAST
“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.
U.K. Blocks Russian Cargo Shipment to Syria|Owen Matthews|June 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST

A Russian ship was to deliver choppers to Syria—until a U.K. insurer canceled its sea coverage and made it a pariah.
U.K. Blocks Russian Cargo Shipment to Syria|Owen Matthews|June 19, 2012|DAILY BEAST
A Forest officer is detailed to an operation of this kind to inspect the choppers' work and count and stamp the ties.
Our National Forests|Richard H. Douai Boerker
Some wood-choppers went on a hunt for the fugitive, and chased him to what was called "Bird Slough."
Mark Twain, A Biography, 1835-1910, Complete|Albert Bigelow Paine
He had a very great mind to eat her up; but he dared not, for there were some wood-choppers near by.
The Book of Fables and Folk Stories|Horace E. Scudder
His fine pair of wood-choppers had grown short and very yellow—that is why he is called Hezee—Yellow Teeth.
Red Hunters And the Animal People|Charles A. Eastman
The two choppers sprang wildly for shore, as the whole face of the jam seemed to crumble in a breath.
The Backwoodsmen|Charles G. D. Roberts

British Dictionary definitions for chopper

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 chopper

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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