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Chopper

nouncommon in dialogue

A British Rail Class 20 locomotive.

noun

  1. 1

    A British Rail Class 20 locomotive.

Etymology

From chopper (“helicopter”), because of the distinctive beating noise of the engine.

Forms

plural
Choppers
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Lexical content from Wiktionary, under CC BY-SA 4.0 · Source entry · Data version 2026-08-23

Rank among the words of the OpenSubtitles 2018 corpus — film and television subtitles, so spoken rather than written usage (CC BY-SA 3.0).