Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. One that chops: a vegetable chopper.
- n. Archaeology A crudely flaked core tool, especially one of the early Paleolithic Period.
- n. A device that interrupts an electric current or a beam of radiation.
- n. Informal A helicopter.
- n. Slang Teeth, especially a set of false teeth.
- n. Informal A motorcycle, especially one that is customized.
- v. Informal To travel by helicopter or transport (someone or something) by helicopter.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which chops; specifically, a butchers' cleaver.—
- n. A hand-tool used for thinning out rows of young plants.
- n. A stout, lusty child; a bouncer.
- n. A cheek of bacon.
- n. A thatched roof. See chopper-cot and choppered.
Wiktionary
- n. A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
- n. A knife for chopping food.
- n. A helicopter.
- n. The penis.
- n. A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker / bikie gangs.
- v. To travel or transport by helicopter.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. One who, or that which, chops.
WordNet 3.0
- n. informal terms for a human `tooth'
- n. an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
- n. a butcher's knife having a large square blade
- n. a grounder that bounces high in the air
Examples
“Either way, seconds later the chopper is gone, skimming over the water towards the next village-island.”
The Guardian: Still marooned: plight of flood-stricken villagers in Pakistan's Sindh province
“Honda trying to look like a custom chopper, is like Steve Jobs trying be trailer trash.”
Honda Fury factory chopper leaks ahead of official New York unveiling - Hell For Leather
“No way was shot down in chopper in 1970, with eye injury.”
“Claims POW - was lone survivor in chopper (rescue chopper with wounded aboard.) crash where all aboard were killed but him”
“Oh and Kent, get yer own friggin chopper! on April 17, 2009 at 6: 16 pm | Reply Civ_In_The_City”
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“Take the lace and the chopper at the bottom left corner of the room. chopper is in the toop of a plate.”
“KING: And the word chopper I associate with helicopter.”
“So the agency bought a better chopper from the Russians and stenciled on a memorable tail number: 91101.”
“Apparently, the churning air generated by a chopper is really hard on the ruins (makes sense).”
“When we called the chopper pilot, Ram wanted to get out with him.”
Analog Science Fiction and Fact
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘chopper’.
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My Strange Kitchen
It seems that whenever I look away, new gadgets and devices and tools and dishes and utensils and ingredients are multiplying in my kitchen drawers and my cabinets.
tectonic plates, spoonbill, fork in the road, bowl haircut, whisk away, greasy spoon, melting pot, pan flute, platelets, spooning, pitchfork, jackknife and 100 more...
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Not edible
Things that sound edible but are not (usually). See Liberty's To Eat, or Not to Eat? for more diet food.
cinnabar, dulcimer, belfries, potto, maltha, grapple, loam, rake, tort, pomade, buffalo chip, wedgie and 165 more...
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gun
words for firearms (singular)
gun, chopper, rifle, pistol, shooter, pea shooter, cannon, glock, shotgun, gat, strap, revolver and 26 more...
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Chop
dhar, chop, ax, cleaver, chopfallen, dolabriform, securiform, dolabrate, barong, machete, froe, guloc and 42 more...
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Archaeology
Words for shovelbums!
trowel, mattock, chopper, n-transform, c-transform, taphonomy, processual, post-processual, microarchaeology, site, horizon, battleship curve and 33 more...
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Hoppers
bunnies, Dennis Hopper, Edward Hopper, chopper, shopper, hopper, Hopper, hoppers, sand hopper, someone on a pogo..., bell-hopper, bobby soxer and 45 more...
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Unique Words and Acronyms Used In the Vietnam War
American troops created their own language in the Vietnam War. This list tries to record them.

bilby "Another diversion is the Lupanarium.
'Ere, isn't that a man's prick sticking out over the door?'
'Well, it certainly isn't a woman's.'
It was a monster made of concrete and about a foot long.
'What's it doin' up there?' says Webb.
I demonstrate by hanging my hat on it.
'A hat-stand? Get away.'
'Well, it's a stand of some kind,' I explained, 'and this is a house of ill repute.'
Webb grinned from ear to ear. 'Ahh, that's why they got that bloody great chopper sticking out, then.'"
- Spike Milligan, 'Mussolini: My Part In His Downfall.' Apr 18, 2009
reesetee Maybe if we stand on our heads.... Apr 7, 2008
bilby Dead right c_b. Apr 6, 2008
chained_bear I love how the most ubiquitously understood meaning is dead last. Apr 6, 2008
bilby WordNET's excited about the new season :-) Apr 6, 2008