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chopper
[ chop-er ]
noun
- a short ax with a large blade, used for cutting up meat, fish, etc.; butcher's cleaver.
- a prehistoric implement made by striking flakes off one or both sides of a stone, considered the oldest known worked stone tool.
- choppers, Slang. the teeth.
- Informal. a helicopter.
- Slang. a motorcycle.
- a device for interrupting an electric current or a beam of light at regular intervals.
verb (used without object)
- Informal.
- to travel by helicopter:
We choppered into midtown from the airport.
- to travel by motorcycle.
chopper
/ ˈtʃɒpə /
noun
- a small hand axe
- a butcher's cleaver
- a person or thing that cuts or chops
- an informal name for a helicopter
- a slang name for penis
- a device for periodically interrupting an electric current or beam of radiation to produce a pulsed current or beam See also vibrator
- a type of bicycle or motorcycle with very high handlebars and an elongated saddle
- a child's bicycle
- obsolete.a sub-machine-gun
chopper
/ chŏp′ər /
- A crudely flaked, unifacial core tool , especially one associated with the Oldowan stone culture of the early Paleolithic Period.
Word History and Origins
Origin of chopper1
Example Sentences
That was for two minutes, when he held a “chopper talk” session while walking from the White House to Marine One last week.
Much of the TV coverage focused the astonishing sight of choppers day and night flying over tall columns of flames, depositing their water and flying away as red flames transformed into puffs of white smoke.
New York Mayor Eric Adams was part of a throng police officials who met Mr Mangione's chopper when it landed in Manhattan.
Smith sent a chopper to shortstop Anthony Volpe in the next at-bat, then watched as Volpe spiked a throw to third base.
Roberts, batting left-handed, led off the game with a single on an infield chopper that bounded over the pitcher’s head.
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