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[ chop-er ] / ˈtʃɒp ər / SEE SYNONYMS FOR chopper ON THESAURUS.COM
nouna 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.
Origin of chopper1545–55; 1950–55 for def. 5; chop1 + -er1 Words nearby chopperchoplogic, chop mark, chopped, chopped liver, chopped steak, chopper, chopper tool, chopping block, choppy, chops, chop shop Dictionary.com UnabridgedBased on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2020 Example sentences from the Web for chopperIn 1988 he was jailed for seven months when police in Jersey found half an ounce of cocaine on board his chopper. The Secrets of Britain’s Wildest Aristocrats|Tom Sykes|October 20, 2014|DAILY BEAST When it falls unconscious, a ground crew drags the beast—which can weigh up to 5,000 lbs—into a net strapped to the chopper. South Africa’s Great Rhino Airlift|Nina Strochlic|August 17, 2014|DAILY BEAST But when Fallon spends too much time on the Vitamix, Arnold demands that he “get to the chopper!” Arnold Schwarzenegger, Cartoon Theme Songs and More Viral Videos|The Daily Beast Video|March 29, 2014|DAILY BEAST After the chopper went down, McKnight was redirected to the crash site where much of the fighting force was pinned down. Black Hawk Down’s Long Shadow|Daniel Klaidman|October 9, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Guests were convinced that the chopper was coming to collect William as Kate was going into labor. Street Parties, Helicopters, and Gun Salutes: How the Royal Birth Will Unfold|Tom Sykes|June 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST See how many traces from which we may learn the chopper's history! Excursions and Poems|Henry David Thoreau The woods of America for the first time rang to the chopper. Canada: the Empire of the North|Agnes C. Laut Mrs McNab threw down her chopper, and turned to wipe her hands on a roller towel. Big Game|Mrs. George de Horne Vaizey Yes, sir, when I was an apprentice: a man using a chopper cut off his hand. Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 1, December 18, 1841|Various Taking his chopper with him, he met a little Chamar girl, whom he took into a temple in Bahadurpur. The Criminal|Havelock Ellis
British Dictionary definitions for chopper
nounmainly 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 Collins English Dictionary - Complete & Unabridged 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012 Words related to choppermolar, dicer, mincer, axe Scientific definitions for chopper
A crudely flaked, unifacial core tool, especially one associated with the Oldowan stone culture of the early Paleolithic Period. The American Heritage® Science Dictionary Copyright © 2011. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved. |