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woodchipper

woodchipper noun: a machine for reducing wood to woodchips.

woodchipper: a machine for reducing wood to woodchips
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Noun

woodchipper (plural woodchippers)

  1. A machine for reducing wood to woodchips.
    • Last February, Elon Musk boasted of “feeding USAID into the woodchipper” as President Trump kicked off his second term with an unanticipated assault on the agency.2026 February 8, Jeremy Konyndyk, “The Aftermath of Feeding America’s Credibility Into the Woodchipper”, in The New York Times, New York, N.Y.: The New York Times Company, →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from...

Forms of woodchipper

pluralwoodchippers

Origin of woodchipper

From wood + chipper.

Questions about woodchipper

What does woodchipper mean?
Woodchipper means a machine for reducing wood to woodchips.
What part of speech is woodchipper?
Woodchipper is a noun.
What is the plural of woodchipper?
The plural of woodchipper is woodchippers.

Words near woodchipper in the dictionary

  1. Woodchester
  2. woodchip
  3. woodchip wallpaper
  4. woodchip wallpapers
  5. woodchipped
  6. woodchipper
  7. woodchippers
  8. woodchipping
  9. woodchippings
  10. woodchips
  11. woodchop

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