chopper

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɒp.ə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɔp.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɑ.pɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

chop +‎ -er

Noun

chopper (plural choppers)

1. A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
2. A knife for chopping food.
3. (archaeology) A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
4. A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
5. (slang) The penis.
6. (informal) A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker/bikie gangs.
7. (slang) An assault rifle, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
8. (electronics) Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
9. (Canada, US) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Synonyms

• (slang: penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

Translations

axe/ax — see axe

knife for chopping food

• Bulgarian: сатър (bg) m (satǎr)
• Finnish: paloitteluveitsi
• French: hachoir (fr) m
• German: Hackbeil n
• Greek:

  Ancient: κοπίς f (kopís)

• Polish: tasak (pl)
• Slovak: sekáčik m
• Spanish: tajador m
• Tagalog: panghapak

archaeology: crude tool with an irregular cutting edge

• Finnish: kirves (fi)

thick mitten

slang: penis

• Finnish: slaba

• French: zob (fr) m

type of motorcycle

• Finnish: chopperi

• Spanish: chóper f

slang: assault rifle, especially a fully-automatic one

• Finnish: rynkky (fi) (assault rifle); aksu (AK-47)

electronics: type of electronic switch

• Finnish: hakkuri (fi)

• French: hacheur (fr) m

Pomatomus saltatrix — see bluefish

Etymology 2

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

Noun

chopper (plural choppers)

1. (informal) A helicopter.

Synonyms

• (helicopter): whirlybird

Translations

helicopter (formal translations) — see helicopter

informal: helicopter

• Finnish: kopteri (fi)
• French: banane (fr) f, hélico (fr) m

• German: Hubschrauber (de)
• Russian: верту́шка (ru) f (vertúška)
• Spanish: helico m, helicóptero (es) m

Verb

chopper (third-person singular simple present choppers, present participle choppering, simple past and past participle choppered)

1. (informal) To travel or transport by helicopter.

Translations

(informal) To travel or transport by helicopter

• Spanish: helicar

Anagrams

• prechop

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French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.pe/

• Audio (Paris)

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Verb

chopper

1. (archaic, intransitive) to stumble

Conjugation

Conjugation of chopper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chopper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	choppant /ʃɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		choppé /ʃɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	choppe /ʃɔp/	choppes /ʃɔp/	choppe /ʃɔp/	choppons /ʃɔ.pɔ̃/	choppez /ʃɔ.pe/	choppent /ʃɔp/
	imperfect	choppais /ʃɔ.pɛ/	choppais /ʃɔ.pɛ/	choppait /ʃɔ.pɛ/	choppions /ʃɔ.pjɔ̃/	choppiez /ʃɔ.pje/	choppaient /ʃɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	choppai /ʃɔ.pe/	choppas /ʃɔ.pa/	choppa /ʃɔ.pa/	choppâmes /ʃɔ.pam/	choppâtes /ʃɔ.pat/	choppèrent /ʃɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	chopperai /ʃɔ.pʁe/	chopperas /ʃɔ.pʁa/	choppera /ʃɔ.pʁa/	chopperons /ʃɔ.pʁɔ̃/	chopperez /ʃɔ.pʁe/	chopperont /ʃɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chopperais /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/	chopperais /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/	chopperait /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/	chopperions /ʃɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	chopperiez /ʃɔ.pə.ʁje/	chopperaient /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	choppe /ʃɔp/	choppes /ʃɔp/	choppe /ʃɔp/	choppions /ʃɔ.pjɔ̃/	choppiez /ʃɔ.pje/	choppent /ʃɔp/
	imperfect2	choppasse /ʃɔ.pas/	choppasses /ʃɔ.pas/	choppât /ʃɔ.pa/	choppassions /ʃɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	choppassiez /ʃɔ.pa.sje/	choppassent /ʃɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	choppe /ʃɔp/	—	choppons /ʃɔ.pɔ̃/	choppez /ʃɔ.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is only usable with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, the past historic, past anterior, imperfect subjunctive and pluperfect subjunctive tenses may be found to have been replaced with the indicative present perfect, indicative pluperfect, present subjunctive and past subjunctive tenses respectively (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• choper

Further reading

• “chopper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).