chopper
UK/ˈtʃɒp.ə/
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Australia/ˈtʃɔp.ə/
chopper noun: a tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
Noun (1)
chopper (plural choppers)
- A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
- A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.
- A kitchen appliance used for chopping various foods, akin to a small food processor.
- A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
- A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
- A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker or bikie gangs.
- Meronym: apehangers
- Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
- A high-bouncing batted ball.
- The penis.
- Synonyms:
- penis
- An assault rifle or carbine, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
- My chopper sing like Sia, make a bitch sick diarrhea.2019 March 1, Rico Nasty, “Tia Tamera”, in Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly (lyrics), Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini (music), Amala (FLAC), performed by Rico Nasty, Los Angeles: Kemosabe Records, published...
- The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
- A rapper who raps in a fast-paced rhyming style.
Noun (2)
chopper (plural choppers)
- A 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.1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall
- Synonyms:
- whirlybird
- There's armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
Verb
chopper (third-person singular simple present choppers, present participle choppering, simple past and past participle choppered)
- To travel or transport by helicopter.
- They lifted Catholics. Civil Rights guys, mostly. Low-level nationalists. Choppered them off to some interrogation centre outside Belfast.2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 288
Noun (3) capitalized: Chopper
Chopper (plural Choppers)
- A British Rail Class 20 locomotive.
chopper meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
chopper in Hindi
- चॉपर
chopper in Tamil
- இடையிடை பிளவுபடுத்தி, வெட்டுக்கத்தி, அரிவாள், மின்னோட்டத்தறிப்பான்
chopper in Marathi
- चॉपर
chopper in Urdu
- چھرا, تیشہ
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- chopper in Bengali
- চপার
- chopper in Telugu
- చోపర్
- chopper in Malayalam
- വെട്ടുകത്തി, വെട്ടരിവാൾ, വെട്ടരുവാൾ, വാക്കത്തി
- chopper in Kannada
- ಸಣ್ಣ ಕೊಡಲಿ, ಮಚ್ಚುಗತ್ತಿ, ಕಡಿಕತ್ತಿ, ಕಡಿಗತ್ತಿ
- chopper in Punjabi
- ਚਾੱਪਰ
- chopper in Gujarati
- ચૉપર
- chopper in Nepali
- चॉपर
- chopper in Tagalog
- panghapak
Examples of chopper in a sentence
- We have a chopper down near the river.
- He aimed a dreadful chopper at Baily’s nob.
- The chopper came in hot, with guns blazing.
Synonyms of chopper
Forms of chopper
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | choppers |
| plural | Choppers |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | choppers |
| present participle | choppering |
| past participle | choppered |
| past | choppered |
Origin of chopper
From chop + -er.
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.
From chopper (“helicopter”), because of the distinctive beating noise of the engine.
Words formed from chopper
Phrases with chopper
Words that rhyme with chopper
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Questions about chopper
- What does chopper mean?
- Chopper means a tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
- What is chopper in Hindi?
- Chopper in Hindi is चॉपर. See Chopper meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is chopper?
- Chopper can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce chopper?
- Chopper is pronounced /ˈtʃɒp.ə/ (UK).
- What is the plural of chopper?
- The plural of chopper is choppers.
Words near chopper in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: chopper (page history and authors); Chopper (page history and authors); chopper (Hindi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chopper (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chopper (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chopper (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chopper (Bengali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chopper (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chopper (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); chopper (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); chopper (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chopper (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); chopper (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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