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chopper - 5 dictionary results

chop⋅per

[chop-er]
–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.

Origin:
1545–55; 1950–55 for def. 5; chop 1 + -er 1
chop·per   (chŏp'ər)   
n.  
  1. One that chops: a vegetable chopper.
  2. Archaeology A crudely flaked core tool, especially one of the early Paleolithic Period.
  3. A device that interrupts an electric current or a beam of radiation.
  4. Informal A helicopter.
  5. choppers Slang Teeth, especially a set of false teeth.
  6. Informal A motorcycle, especially one that is customized.
intr. & tr.v.   chop·pered, chop·per·ing, chop·pers
Informal To travel by helicopter or transport (someone or something) by helicopter.

Chopper

Chop"per\, n. One who, or that which, chops.
Language Translation for : chopper
Spanish: hacha pequeña; cuchilla de carnicero,
German: das Hackmesser,
Japanese: 大包丁
chopper   (chŏp'ər)  Pronunciation Key 
A crudely flaked, unifacial core tool, especially one associated with the Oldowan stone culture of the early Paleolithic Period.

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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