chopper

[ chop-er ]

noun

1. a person or thing that chops. chop.
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. choppers, Slang. 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.

verb (used without object)

1. Informal.
   1. to travel by helicopter:

      We choppered into midtown from the airport.

   2. to travel by motorcycle.

chopper

/ 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

chopper

/ chŏp′ər /

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of chopper¹

1545–55; 1950–55 chopper fordef 5; chop ¹ + -er ¹

Example Sentences

Smith sent a chopper to shortstop Anthony Volpe in the next at-bat, then watched as Volpe spiked a throw to third base.

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Roberts, batting left-handed, led off the game with a single on an infield chopper that bounded over the pitcher’s head.

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What rational mind can’t remember the details of plummeting from the sky and facing possible death in a chopper?

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Only a year earlier, in 1989, three executives of Trump’s casinos were killed, along with two others when a chopper crashed over Fork River in New Jersey.

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After a futile confrontation with Calley, Thompson landed his chopper between a group of fleeing Vietnamese and the soldiers closing in on them.

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