chopper

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Controlling the chopper is a tricky job unless you've put the hours into GTA IV, which in our case meant running laps around town unthreatened as the biker, then wrapping the chopper around a telephone pole.

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  1. noun One that chops: a vegetable chopper.
  2. noun Archaeology A crudely flaked core tool, especially one of the early Paleolithic Period.
  3. noun A device that interrupts an electric current or a beam of radiation.

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  • Lexi expected to see Sire Cooper, but the person standing by the chopper was the Canon of her own Parcel, the one who was Granpa's friend, the one who always used to say how wonderful it was that their Parcel had a real family with a real testimony. —  FSF,October2007
  • She must be wondering what the chopper was about, and half-prepared for Humphrey's imminent appearance. —  F ;SF - vol 105 issue 04-05 - October-November 2003
  • It must have been a tough call: his father was a wood-chopper, and his father's father was a wood-chopper. —  Blogposts | guardian.co.uk
  • Controlling the chopper is a tricky job unless you've put the hours into GTA IV, which in our case meant running laps around town unthreatened as the biker, then wrapping the chopper around a telephone pole. —  Computer And Video Games
  • The action is top notch, but the scene with the hummers and the chopper is a bit overdone. —  Comic Book Movie
 

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  1. from chop + -er.
  2. In form identical with preceding, but with reference to chopping.
  3. Also chappor, chupper, chuppar, < Hind, chhappar.
 

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/ˈtʃɑpər/
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