chopper
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ər 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.
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)
8.
Informal.
a.
to travel by helicopter: We choppered into midtown from the airport.
b.
to travel by motorcycle.
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World English Dictionary
chopper (ˈtʃɒpə) ![[Click for IPA pronunciation guide]](http://static.sfdict.com/dictstatic/g/d/dictionary_questionbutton_default.gif) | |
| —n | |
| 1. | chiefly (Brit) 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. | chiefly (Brit) a slang name for penis |
| 6. | See also vibrator a device for periodically interrupting an electric current or beam of radiation to produce a pulsed current or beam |
| 7. | a type of bicycle or motorcycle with very high handlebars and an elongated saddle |
| 8. | (NZ) a child's bicycle |
| 9. | obsolete, slang chiefly (US) a sub-machine-gun |
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Word Origin & History
chopper
1550s, "one who chops," from chop (1). Meaning "helicopter" is from 1951, Korean War military slang; type of stripped-down motorcycle (originally prefered by Hell's Angels) is so called from 1965.
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American Heritage
Science Dictionary
| chopper (chŏp'ər) Pronunciation Key
A crudely flaked, unifacial core tool, especially one associated with the Oldowan stone culture of the early Paleolithic Period. |
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Slang Dictionary
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Dictionary of American Slang and Colloquial Expressions by Richard A. Spears.Fourth Edition.
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Encyclopedia Britannica
Encyclopedia
chopper
any of several types of transistors having four semiconducting layers and therefore three p-n junctions; the thyristor is a solid-state analogue of the thyratron vacuum tube, and its name derives from the combination of the two words thyratron and transistor. A common form of thyristor is the silicon-controlled rectifier (SCR), used to convert alternating current (AC) to direct current (DC) and widely used as a component of devices that control motor speeds, liquid levels, temperatures, and pressures.
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Example sentences
Fire away to hitch a ride, then hijack the chopper in mid-air.
Doing their own stunt work, the two actors could have lost their lives when the chopper snagged one of its skids in the bridge.
Also, if the chopper or plan is moving at a high rate of speed the shots could be blurry.
Depending on their status, vacation club members get airport transfers via chopper, stretch limo or a dedicated shuttle.
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