单词 | chopper |
释义 | choppern.1 1. a. One who chops or cuts into pieces. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > wholeness > mutual relation of parts to whole > separation > action of dividing or divided condition > division by cutting > [noun] > one who chopper1552 1552 R. Huloet Abcedarium Anglico Latinum Chopper, truncator. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 2 (1623) ii. iv. 319 Call me Pantler, and Bread-chopper [1600 bread-chipper]. 1694 Acct. Several Late Voy. (1711) ii. vii. 173 One of them cuts the soft and tough Fat into small pieces with a long Knife; this Man they call the Chopper. 1785 A. Ellicott in Life & Lett. (1908) 44 My Brother Joseph at Present runs the guide Line for the Choppers. 1860 J. G. Holland Miss Gilbert's Career ix. 146 In the yards of the quiet dwellings the sturdy chopper's axe was swung. 1875 J. G. Holland Sevenoaks i. 4 Seven huge oaks which the chopper's axe, for some reason or other had spared. 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 199 ‘The..domestic sound’ of the wood-chopper's axe. b. U.S. Lumber-trade. A workman who fells and lops the trees. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > lumberman wood-hewerc1000 wooderc1050 hagger1294 wood-hagger1294 feller1422 woodman1426 faller1614 wood-maker1616 forest-feller1618 axeman1671 holt-felstera1678 stocker1686 bayman1715 logger1734 wood-cutter1758 lumberer1809 lumbermana1817 shantyman1824 chopper1827 splitter1841 bushman1846 mahogany cutter1850 piner1871 bush-faller1882 lumberjack1888 bushwhacker1898 home guard1903 Jack1910 gyppo1912 timber-getter1912 timberjack1916 timber beast1919 1827 J. F. Cooper Prairie vii. 103 What will the Yankee Choppers say? 1867 R. W. Emerson May-day & Other Pieces 77 Fishers and choppers and ploughmen Shall constitute a state. 1880 Lumberman's Gaz. Jan. 28 A Wisconsin lumber-camp is divided into ‘choppers’, ‘sawyers’, and ‘swampers.’ c. slang. (See quot. 1865.) ΚΠ 1865 in Pall Mall Gaz. 4 Sept. 9/2 I was glad to get it off to a ‘chopper’ at last..Dr. Letheby explained that a ‘chopper’ is the trade term for a sausage-maker. 2. a. An instrument used for cleaving or cutting up: spec. a large-bladed short-handled axe used for cutting up meat, wood, etc.; a butcher's cleaver. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > equipment for food preparation > [noun] > cleaver chopping-knife1552 cleaver1580 chopper1818 meat-axe1834 mezzaluna1954 society > occupation and work > equipment > cutting tool > axe > [noun] > chopper or cleaver hack1333 hackera1398 chopping-knife1552 clavestock1580 cleaver1580 sax1669 chopper1818 1818 H. J. Todd Johnson's Dict. Eng. Lang. Chopper, a butcher's cleaver; a word now used more frequently than cleaver. 1844 T. B. Macaulay Barère in Edinb. Rev. Apr. 317 The long fair hair of handsome aristocrats who had died by the national chopper [sc. the guillotine]. 1884 Manch. Examiner 15 Aug. 4/7 Charged..with..striking it on the head with a chopper. b. to get the chopper (see chop n.1 4f). Categories » 3. An agricultural implement for thinning out plants in drills. Used in Great Britain for turnips; in the United States for cotton plants. (Knight Mech. Dict. 1874.) 4. A device for interrupting an electric current, a beam of light, or radiation, at regular intervals; = interrupter n. b. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electricity > electric current > flow of electricity > [noun] > device interrupting rheotome1843 interrupter1851 chopper1929 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > light > polarization > [noun] > analysis of > instrument or device Wollaston('s) prism1890 Poincaré sphere1918 spectropolarimeter1926 chopper1955 the world > matter > physics > electromagnetic radiation > electronics > electronic devices or components > [noun] > on or off device > electronic switches clamp1947 chopper1962 1929 J. A. Ratcliffe Physical Princ. Wireless iv. 64 Such a device is called a chopper, and usually takes the form of a buzzer contact. 1940 Chambers's Techn. Dict. 160/1 Chopper, an interrupter, generally in the form of a rotating commutator. 1950 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 54 22/2 For still greater numbers..the gauges are grouped in banks of eight, scanned by a rotating chopper switch. 1955 Sci. Amer. Aug. 64/1 The chopper is a Kerr cell: a glass cell containing a liquid..which in an electric field can transform an entering beam of plane-polarized light into a ‘circularly polarized’ beam. 1962 Gloss. Terms Automatic Data Processing (B.S.I.) 103 The modulator, which is called a chopper, is often a vibrating mechanical contact or a solid-state electronic switch. 1962 J. H. Simpson & R. S. Richards Physical Princ. Junction Transistors ix. 216 Because of their excellent switching characteristics, transistors make particularly good ‘choppers’ for d.c. to a.c. conversion. 5. A machine-gun or -gunner. U.S. slang. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > warrior > armed man > [noun] > one armed with or using firearm > machine-gun machine-gunner1888 chopper1929 tommy-gunner1932 Sten-gunner1961 society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun machine gun1867 woodpecker1898 put-put1905 M.G.1915 typewriter1915 chopper1929 rattlebox1929 Chicago typewriter1940 1929 Harper's Mag. Oct. 535/2 Johnny Hand..had met the ‘chopper’, i.e., machine-gun. 1931 G. Irwin Amer. Tramp & Underworld Slang 50 Chopper, a machine gun, or the man operating such a weapon with a gang of racketeers or robbers. 1932 E. Wallace When Gangs came to London viii. 65 You remember the shooting of Big Sam Polini? The choppers got him as he came out of mass one morning. 1962 I. Fleming Spy who loved Me xi. 156 There was a mixture of single shots and bursts from the chopper..sorry, sub-machine gun. 6. A helicopter. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > helicopter or gyrocopter helicopter1861 automotive1865 gyroplane1907 gyropter1908 gyrocopter1915 egg-beater1937 mixmaster1946 'copter1947 chopper1951 whirlybird1951 1951 N.Y. Herald Tribune 16 Dec. ii. 5/7 The Korean War has added some new words to the American soldier's vocabulary..Chopper: Helicopter. 1952 N.Y. Times Mag. 17 Aug. 16/4 Oil and gas producers use the ‘chopper’ to patrol long and rugged gas and oil pipelines. 1958 Listener 31 July 175/3 A naval helicopter or ‘chopper’ going about its flights and hoverings. 7. a. A motorcycle built or adapted for speed and stripped of inessential parts; spec. one with raised handlebars and front-wheel fork extended forwards, originally as used by Hell's Angels. Also loosely, a motorcycle. slang (originally U.S.). ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun] > with raised handlebars chopper1965 society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > powered vehicle > motorcycle > [noun] bus1881 motor bicycle1894 motorcycle1894 autocycle1895 motorbike1895 bike1903 mo-bike1925 noddy1964 scoot1968 chop1970 chopper1985 1965 W. Murray in Sat. Evening Post 20 Nov. 37/2 The Angels reduce a machine to its essence, jamming the seats down, stripping away the chrome and extras, replacing standard parts and fittings with improvisations of their own, turning what started out as a ‘garbage wagon’ into a ‘chopper’. 1970 K. Platt Pushbutton Butterfly (1971) iv. 36 The chopper came roaring up and then I saw it [was]..an Angel..riding the big outlaw Harley 74. 1973 Daily Colonist (Victoria, Brit. Columbia) 1 July 6/1 Snarling bikes or ‘choppers’, low, rakish, and tuned for speed. 1977 Economist 17 Dec. 42/2 An Evel Knievel doll on the notorious chopper motor bike. 1985 N.Y. Times 27 Apr. 9/4 Ending up at House of Choppers, a motorcycle repair shop. b. (With capital initial.) A proprietary name for a type of child's bicycle, modelled after the design of a ‘chopper’ motorcycle. ΘΚΠ society > travel > means of travel > a conveyance > vehicle > vehicle propelled by feet > [noun] > cycle > bicycle > other types of bicycle forty-four1821 roadster1875 rear-steerer1882 pneumatic1890 path-racer1896 featherweight1901 free-wheeler1908 fairy cycle1920 superbike1935 sit-up-and-beg1939 bakfiets1956 high-riser1965 all-terrain cycle1970 chopper1971 mountain bike1972 shopper1973 mixte1975 BMX1978 cruiser1978 ojek1983 boda boda1995 e-bike1998 fixie2001 ghost bike2004 1971 Trade Marks Jrnl. 31 Mar. 573/1 Chopper... Bicycles, tricycles and parts included in Class 12... Raleigh Industries Limited, 177, Lenton Boulevard, Nottingham; Manufacturers. 1971 Daily Tel. 22 Oct. (Colour Suppl.) 41/3 Long handlebars are only part of the conversion that creates the so-called ‘chopper’. The forks are lengthened and their angle is changed to throw the front wheel further forward. The machines are lightened and decorated, sometimes becoming psychedelic fantasies. 1976 Bridgwater Mercury 21 Dec. 11/1 The Ladies' Auxiliary..has recently presented a chopper-bike and other gifts to Penrose School, Bridgwater. 1978 R. Watson & M. Gray Penguin Bk. Bicycle i. 36 The chopper-type bicycle or ‘high-riser’, that freak of modern design. Draft additions October 2009 colloquial. In plural. Teeth; (also) a set of false teeth. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > dentistry > [noun] > denture ratelier1812 plate1845 mineral teeth1851 denture1874 tooth-plate1880 teeth-plate1897 gnasher1919 snapper1924 chopper1937 the world > life > the body > digestive or excretive organs > digestive organs > mouth > tooth or teeth > [noun] teetha900 munpinsc1475 gams1508 peg1598 tusk1632 masticator1681 headrail1767 ivory1783 tombstone1809 dominos1828 dental1837 toothy-peg1840 fang1841 cruncher1859 chomper1884 teg1886 Hampstead Heath1887 pearly1914 gnasher1919 tat1919 pearly whites1935 chopper1937 1937 Ironwood (Mich.) Daily Globe 13 July 1/4 (heading) Hope they bite! Meanest thief steals false choppers from couple. 1940 A. Kober That Man is here Again 120 She gives me a very nice ‘Thank you’ and a smile—she got very lovely white choppers. 1952 G. Mandel Flee Angry Strangers 134 The choppers show up missin and I sound like a chicken's ass. 1974 D. A. Richards Coming of Winter iii. 76 ‘New choppers?’ ‘Course not... I'll never get rid of these.’ ‘Why not?’ ‘Cause these were the first teeth ever made.’ 1978 J. Grenfell Stately as Galleon 43 I might as well live dangerously while I still got all me choppers. 2003 J. R. Lennon Mailman ii. vii. 347 He remembers..the family mailman in Princeton—handsome fella, big eyebrows, big white choppers. Draft additions October 2009 slang (chiefly British). The penis. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > sex organs > male sex organs > [noun] > penis weapona1000 tarsec1000 pintleOE cock?c1335 pillicock?c1335 yard1379 arrowa1382 looma1400 vergea1400 instrumentc1405 fidcocka1475 privya1500 virile member (or yard)?1541 prickc1555 tool1563 pillock1568 penis1578 codpiece1584 needle1592 bauble1593 dildo1597 nag1598 virility1598 ferret1599 rubigo?a1600 Jack1604 mentula1605 virge1608 prependent1610 flute1611 other thing1628 engine1634 manhood1640 cod1650 quillity1653 rammer1653 runnion1655 pego1663 sex1664 propagator1670 membrum virile1672 nervea1680 whore-pipe1684 Roger1689 pudding1693 handle?1731 machine1749 shaft1772 jock1790 poker1811 dickyc1815 Johnny?1833 organ1833 intromittent apparatus1836 root1846 Johnson1863 Peter1870 John Henry1874 dickc1890 dingusc1890 John Thomasc1890 old fellowc1890 Aaron's rod1891 dingle-dangle1893 middle leg1896 mole1896 pisser1896 micky1898 baby-maker1902 old man1902 pecker1902 pizzle1902 willy1905 ding-dong1906 mickey1909 pencil1916 dingbatc1920 plonkerc1920 Johna1922 whangera1922 knob1922 tube1922 ding1926 pee-pee1927 prong1927 pud1927 hose1928 whang1928 dong1930 putz1934 porkc1935 wiener1935 weenie1939 length1949 tadger1949 winkle1951 dinger1953 winky1954 dork1961 virilia1962 rig1964 wee-wee1964 Percy1965 meat tool1966 chopper1967 schlong1967 swipe1967 chode1968 trouser snake1968 ding-a-ling1969 dipstick1970 tonk1970 noonies1972 salami1977 monkey1978 langer1983 wanker1987 1967 E. Partridge Dict. Slang Suppl. 1054/2 Chopper,..penis. 1977 Western Folklore 36 292 A coloured fellow walks inside a doctor's office and puts his chopper [penis] on the desk. 1994 J. Birmingham He died with Felafel in his Hand (1997) iii. 46 He stood on the bar to make the announcement and, since he was up there, flopped out his chopper for everyone to admire. 1999 A. Jackson Enough Candy vi. 165 I have just seen Alan Jackson's chopper! And I tell you, it's a whopper! This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2022). choppern.2ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > [noun] > barterer scorser1531 chopper1581 marter1591 barterer1611 society > faith > worship > benefice > simony > [noun] > one characterized by simoniac1340 chop-church1391 simonient1395 Simonianc1400 simonialc1405 simoniera1425 gyesite1426 barrator1427 simoner1438 simoniacle1502 simonite1508 Balaamite1559 simonist1567 chopper1581 benefice-monger1583 church-chopper1631 chop-living1634 1581 J. Bell tr. W. Haddon & J. Foxe Against Jerome Osorius 271 Bowthes of Choppers and Chaungers. 1585 Abp. E. Sandys Serm. ii. 28 Those symoniacall choppers and chaungers, buyers and sellers. 1656 J. Trapp Comm. 1 Pet. v. 2 Church-choppers and money-changers. b. One who chops logic. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > understanding > reason, faculty of reasoning > misleading argument, sophistry > [noun] > false reasoner, sophist sophisterc1380 Duns man1528 chop-loge1542 dunser?1550 shifter1567 chop-logic1575 sophist1581 casuist1616 casualist1633 Jesuit1640 logicaster1683 chopper1699 special pleader1796 1699 J. Locke Reply to Bishop of Worcester's Answer to 2nd Let. 356 Such a dangerous chopper of Logick. 1875 N. Amer. Rev. 120 299 A chopper of Chinese logic. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online June 2020). † choppern.3 Obsolete. rare. ? A ‘chopping’ or strapping boy or child. Cf. chopping adj.2 ΚΠ 1605 W. Camden Remaines i. 218 She had brought foorth two monsters..such childe-choppers, that as soone as ever they were borne, they were able to wage warre with a mighty King. a1627 T. Middleton No Wit (1657) ii. 52 'Twould have been a jolly chopper, and 't'ad liv'd till this time. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1889; most recently modified version published online March 2021). choppern.4 Anglo-Indian. A thatched roof. Also attributive. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [noun] > thatched roof chopper1780 attap1817 thatch-roof1901 1780 Lett. in Hicky Bengal Gaz. 6 May Setting fire to Houses by throwing the Tickeea of his Hooka on the Choppers. 1782 R. Price Observ. Reversionary Payments 61 They might erect their chappor huts in what part of the town they pleased. 1810 T. Williamson E. India Vade-mecum I. 510 Chuppers, or grass-thatches. 1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Ch. Catech. (ed. 4) xxiv. 187 These cottages had neat choppers. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. ix. 164 [White ants] attracted by the lights, descend from the choppers in thousands. Compounds chopper-cot n. [Hindi chhappar khāt] a tent-bed. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > bed > types of bed > [noun] > canopied bed pavilion bed1704 chopper-cot1807 tent-bedstead1839 tester-bed1843 tester-bedstead1873 1807 F. Buchanan in M. Martin Eastern India (1838) II. 92 Bedsteads..the best are called Palang, or Chaparkhat..they have curtains, mattrasses, pillows, and a sheet. 1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) xviii. 116 A very pretty chopper cot, with curtains, and everything quite complete. Derivatives choppered adj. thatched. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > parts of building > roof > [adjective] > type of roof thatched1467 side?a1475 thacked1530 vaulted1552 shingleda1563 slated1611 unshingled1611 high-pitch1614 slate-pointed1648 killesed1649 hipped1663 pantiledc1672 overpitched1677 underpitched1677 low-pitcheda1684 pitched1773 theeked1792 peaked1797 shingle1810 thackless1810 choppered1818 wagon-headed1823 unlathed1854 break-back1856 shingly1857 saddleback1861 scaled1862 gambrelled1863 thatchy1864 weather-slated1870 thatchless1882 weather-tiled1887 monopitch1941 tile-roofed1962 1818 M. M. Sherwood Stories Church Catech. (ed. 4) xxii. 162 It was thatched, or, as we should call it in this country, choppered. 1834 T. Medwin Angler in Wales I. ix. 141 Bungalows are mud-walled buildings, choppered, or thatched with grass. 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