chopper

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

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• Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)

chop +‎ -er

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 (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).

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

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.

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.

• (helicopter): whirlybird

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.

• prechop

Onomatopoeic

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.pe/

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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 book title or journal name)‎, Public, (Can we date this quote?)

• choper

• “chopper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.