chopper

[ chop-er ]
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noun
  1. a person or thing that chops.

  2. a short ax with a large blade, used for cutting up meat, fish, etc.; butcher's cleaver.

  1. a prehistoric implement made by striking flakes off one or both sides of a stone, considered the oldest known worked stone tool.

  2. choppers, Slang. the teeth.

  3. Informal. a helicopter.

  4. Slang. a motorcycle.

  5. a device for interrupting an electric current or a beam of light at regular intervals.

verb (used without object)
  1. Informal.

    • to travel by helicopter: We choppered into midtown from the airport.

    • to travel by motorcycle.

Origin of chopper

1
1545–55; 1950–55 for def. 5; chop1 + -er1

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How to use chopper in a sentence

  • So Chew-chew chopped the roots with a stone chopper and laid them upon hot stones.

    The Later Cave-Men | Katharine Elizabeth Dopp
  • No one said anything for several minutes, and then the big chopper once more approached his victim.

    The Gold Trail | Harold Bindloss
  • There was a burst of laughter; and the assembly broke up when Cassidy hustled the chopper off the field.

    The Gold Trail | Harold Bindloss
  • Thence 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

chopper

/ (ˈtʃɒpə) /


noun
  1. mainly British a small hand axe

  2. a butcher's cleaver

  1. a person or thing that cuts or chops

  2. an informal name for a helicopter

  3. mainly British a slang name for penis

  4. a device for periodically interrupting an electric current or beam of radiation to produce a pulsed current or beam: See also vibrator (def. 2)

  5. a type of bicycle or motorcycle with very high handlebars and an elongated saddle

  6. NZ a child's bicycle

  7. obsolete, slang, mainly US a sub-machine-gun

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Scientific definitions for chopper

chopper

[ chŏpər ]


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

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