chopper

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

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)

From 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 or 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^[1] (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).
11. A rapper who raps in a fast-paced rhyming style.

• (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

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/

• Audio (Paris):

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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)‎^[2], Public, (Can we date this quote?)

• choper

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