chopper

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chop +‎ -er

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chopper (plural choppers)

  1. A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
  2. A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.
  3. A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
  4. (informal) A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker/bikie gangs.
  5. (electronics) Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
  6. (archaeology) A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
  7. (baseball) A high-bouncing batted ball.
  8. (slang) The penis.
  9. (slang) An assault rifle or carbine, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
    • 2019 March 1, Rico Nasty (lyrics and music), “Tia Tamera”, in Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly (lyrics), Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini (music), Amala[1] (FLAC), performed by Rico Nasty, Los Angeles: Kemosabe Records, published 2019:
      My chopper sing like Sia, make a bitch sick diarrhea.
  10. (Canada, US) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
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Etymology 2[edit]

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.

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chopper (plural choppers)

  1. (informal) A helicopter.
    • 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:
      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.
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chopper (third-person singular simple present choppers, present participle choppering, simple past and past participle choppered)

  1. (informal) To travel or transport by helicopter.
    • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 288:
      They lifted Catholics. Civil Rights guys, mostly. Low-level nationalists. Choppered them off to some interrogation centre outside Belfast.
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Onomatopoeic

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chopper

  1. (archaic, intransitive) to stumble
  2. (informal) Alternative spelling of choper (to catch)
    • “Cecilia Siharaj enceinte : L'ex-candidate de Koh-Lanta pensait avoir "choppé" une maladie très grave”, in (please provide the title of the work)[2], Public, (please provide a date or year)

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