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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024chop•per /ˈtʃɑpɚ/USA pronunciation n. [countable]- a person or thing that chops.
- a short ax with a large blade, used for cutting up meat.
- Informal Termsa helicopter:Choppers with wounded were landing.
- Slang Termsa motorcycle.
v. [no object] - Informal Termsto travel by helicopter or motorcycle:They choppered over to the landing zone.
WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024chop•per (chop′ər),USA pronunciation n. - a person or thing that chops.
- a short ax with a large blade, used for cutting up meat, fish, etc.;
butcher's cleaver. - Anthropology, Archaeologya prehistoric implement made by striking flakes off one or both sides of a stone, considered the oldest known worked stone tool.
- Slang Terms choppers, the teeth.
- Informal Termsa helicopter.
- Slang Termsa motorcycle.
- a device for interrupting an electric current or a beam of light at regular intervals.
v.i. - Informal Terms
- to travel by helicopter:We choppered into midtown from the airport.
- to travel by motorcycle.
- 1545–55; 1950–55 for def. 5; chop1 + -er1
Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers:: chopper /ˈtʃɒpə/ n - chiefly Brit a small hand axe
- a butcher's cleaver
- a person or thing that cuts or chops
- an informal name for a helicopter
- chiefly Brit
a slang name for penis - a device for periodically interrupting an electric current or beam of radiation to produce a pulsed current or beam
- a type of bicycle or motorcycle with very high handlebars and an elongated saddle
- NZ a child's bicycle
- obsolete slang chiefly US a sub-machine-gun
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