释义 |
chopper /ˈtʃɒpə /noun1A short axe with a large blade.The word is also often applied to a fire engine, equipped with a number of burly men wielding choppers....- They could make simple stone axes and choppers, and had brains about two-thirds the size of ours.
- The stone tools found with the hominid remains at Dmanisi, however, are simple choppers and scrapers similar to the Oldowan set found in the Olduvai Gorge, Tanzania.
1.1A butcher’s cleaver: a meat chopper...- I had to use this giant chopper that weighed a ton and was already dull before I even struck the meat.
- The handheld blender and chopper are used every day.
- Why are you using the huge chopper to cut cloves?
1.2A machine for chopping something: a straw chopper...- You can hear the snip snip snip of wheat and the chopper throwing the straw out.
- Craton is apparently not alone in thinking the choppers chopped far too much wood.
- Its forks were shorter than a usual chopper, but had a greater angle of rake.
1.3A device for regularly interrupting an electric current or a beam of light or particles.It was a modified television vidicon tube with a TGS target, electron beam readout, a germanium lens, and a light chopper....- The data on all the pixels obtained by a CCD at one exposure are read while using a light chopper, and the data on the odd lines are stored in a first memory and the data on the even lines are stored in a second memory.
- The beam line will consist of neutron guides, choppers, secondary shutters and shielding, along with the necessary utilities and safety and radiation protection equipment.
1.4 ( choppers) informal Teeth: he flashes his choppers back at me...- The Sonicare cleans your choppers with sound waves that produce 31,000 brush strokes per minute.
- A standard set of 16 veneers over dingy old teeth, and the homely are transformed with instant white choppers.
- You're not a bad person for finding comfort in thumb-sucking, but you are permanently damaging your choppers.
2 informal A helicopter: fog had delayed the landing of his chopper...- Great North Air Ambulance paramedic John Kerr said that although conditions on the helicopter were cramped, the chopper's small size meant that it could land on a piece of ground the size of a tennis court.
- After a half-day's delay, the choppers returned to Kulis.
- Several Ranger and Delta elements of the attack force immediately secured the area around the chopper.
3 informal A type of motorcycle with high handlebars and the front-wheel fork extended forwards.I also wonder why the police don't take a little more interest in the crazy foreigners who rent the huge chopper style motorcycles and who use the road as a drag strip....- The father-of-three was fascinated by choppers, the low seated motorcycles made famous in the film Easy Rider, since being a teenager.
- The games, to be published under the Activision Value Brand, will draw inspiration from the show's depiction of a father and son who build chopper motorcycles in their garage.
4British vulgar slang A man’s penis. Rhymesbopper, copper, cropper, Dopper, dropper, hopper, improper, Joppa, poppa, popper, proper, shopper, stopper, swapper, topper, whopper |