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chopper

nounnounverbcommon in dialogue

  • United Kingdom//ˈtʃɒp.ə//
  • United States//ˈt͡ʃɑ.pɚ//
  • Australia//ˈtʃɔp.ə//

Something that chops A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.

noun

  1. 1

    Something that chops A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.

  2. 2

    Something that chops A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.

  3. 3

    Something that chops A kitchen appliance used for chopping various foods, akin to a small food processor.

  4. 4

    Something that chops A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.

  5. 5

    A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.

  6. 6

    informalA type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker or bikie gangs.

    Meronym: apehangers

  7. 7

    Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.

  8. 8

    A high-bouncing batted ball.

  9. 9

    slangThe penis.

  10. 10

    slangAn assault rifle or carbine, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).

    My chopper sing like Sia, make a bitch sick diarrhea.

  11. 11

    The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

  12. 12

    A rapper who raps in a fast-paced rhyming style.

Etymology

Etymology tree English chop Proto-Indo-European *-yósder. Proto-Italic *-āzios Latin -āriusnom. Latin -āriusbor. Proto-Germanic *-ārijaz Proto-West Germanic *-ārī Old English -ere Middle English -ere English -er English chopper From chop + -er.

noun

  1. 1

    informalA helicopter.

    There's armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps And rigs of every size. Yeah, them chicken coops was full o'bears And choppers filled the skies.

Etymology

From the onomatopoeia for the "chop-chop" sound emitted by the main rotor blades of the Bell 47 'OH-13 Sioux' "Angel of Mercy" helicopter, encountered by troops during the Korean War.

verb

  1. 1

    informalTo travel or transport by helicopter.

    They lifted Catholics. Civil Rights guys, mostly. Low-level nationalists. Choppered them off to some interrogation centre outside Belfast.

Forms

plural
choppers
past tense
choppered
past participle
choppered
present participle
choppering
third person singular
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).