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choppering

choppering is the present participle and gerund of chopper.

Meaning of chopper

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.
    • 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

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Questions about choppering

What is choppering the present participle and gerund of?
Choppering is the present participle and gerund of chopper.

Words near choppering in the dictionary

  1. chopper couplings
  2. chopper squad
  3. chopper squads
  4. choppered
  5. Choppergate
  6. choppering
  7. choppers
  8. choppeth
  9. choppier
  10. choppiest
  11. choppily

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Adapted from Wiktionary: choppering (page history and authors); chopper (page history and authors). 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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