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Definition of rock chopper in English: rock choppernoun Australian, NZ informal A manual labourer working on the construction of a road, railway, or canal. a poor rock chopper was working in the hot sun Example sentencesExamples - The patient, a rock chopper by trade, complained of lassitude and general weakness.
- He finds that his saw has now an edge on it like a rock-chopper's pick.
- The founding father of our union, he once worked as a rock chopper.
- "Labouring Occupations" include the ice cart offsider, motor boy, rock chopper and tipman.
- The rock-chopper, the quarryman, and the stonemason were also liable to miners' consumption.
- They said the rock-chopper died in gaol.
- Had it not been for the war, he surely would have been a chicken killer or a rock chopper.
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