chopper
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.
Informal.
to travel by helicopter: We choppered into midtown from the airport.
to travel by motorcycle.
Origin of chopper
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How to use chopper in a sentence
The bit, in which two chopper-riding mamas host an afternoon talk show, started off well.
The Curious Little Shell That Restarted Jenny Slate’s Career | Luke Hopping | December 15, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTIn 1988 he was jailed for seven months when police in Jersey found half an ounce of cocaine on board his chopper.
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.
A black-and-white cat named chopper sleeps upside down on the porch, his open mouth revealing a row of impossibly tiny teeth.
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 | THE DAILY BEAST
So Chew-chew chopped the roots with a stone chopper and laid them upon hot stones.
The Later Cave-Men | Katharine Elizabeth DoppNo one said anything for several minutes, and then the big chopper once more approached his victim.
The Gold Trail | Harold BindlossThere was a burst of laughter; and the assembly broke up when Cassidy hustled the chopper off the field.
The Gold Trail | Harold BindlossThence he went to the corner and picked up the wood-chopper, and armed with this came back to his seat.
This was a chopper very popular in the camp, and known by the name of Jabe.
Earth's Enigmas | Charles G. D. Roberts
British Dictionary definitions for chopper
/ (ˈtʃɒpə) /
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 beam: See 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
[ 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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