Chopper

Definition: Chopper

Chopper

Noun

1. A grounder that bounces high in the air.

2. Informal terms for a human `tooth'.

3. An aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades.

4. A butcher's knife having a large square blade.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "chopper" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1823. (references)

Aerospace

Computing

Electrical Engineering

Food & Agriculture

Occupations

Post & Telecom

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Synonyms: Chopper

Crosswords: Chopper

Swedish (chopper).

It's a chopper, baby (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Quentin Tarantino; Roger Avary)

It's not a bike, it's a chopper. (Pulp Fiction; writing credit: Roger Avary, Quentin Tarantino)

We, uh, trapped him with our chopper. (Lake Placid; writing credit: David E. Kelley)

I only asked if he's got bullets in that chopper. I don't him to take his play-acting too much to heart (Tobruk; writing credit: Leo Gordon)

Newman, get that chopper out of here (The Fugitive; writing credit: Roy Huggins; David Twohy)

Wheelie and the Chopper Bunch (1974)

Chopper One (1974)

The Chopper (1971)

Chopper Chicks in Zombietown (1989)

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Books

• Chopper 2: Hits And Memories (reference)

• Chopper 6 : no tears for a tough guy (reference)

• Chopper Cycle Mania (reference)

• Chopper Ops: Shuttle Down (Chopper Ops, 3) (reference)

• How to Build a Chopper (reference)

  (more book examples)

Periodicals

• Street Chopper (reference)

  (more periodical examples)

Theater & Movies

• Chopper (reference)

  (more DVD examples; more video examples)

Music

• Chopper City [EXPLICIT LYRICS] (reference)

• Chopper City in the Ghetto [Clean] (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

High Tech

• Chopper Attack (reference)

• LHX Attack Chopper (reference)

  (more camera examples; more video game examples; more computer examples; more electronic examples; more software examples)

Consumer Goods

• Cuisinart CSB-55N SmartStick Extendable Shaft Hand Blender & Chopper Grinder (reference)

• KitchenAid KFC3100WH Chef Series Food Chopper, White (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

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Fig. 1 - Bait chopper; Fig. 2 - Bait slivering knife Fig. 3 - Halibut killer and gob stick; Fig. 4 - Wooden hand nipper Fig. 5 - Halibut gaff; Fig. 6 - Trawl buoy and black ball Fig. 7 - Canvas skate for section of trawl; Fig. 8 - Dory scoop Drawing by Capt. J.W. Collins. Credit: National Marine Fisheries Historical Image Collection.

Chopper Rock timber sale. Credit: T. Richards.

Stencil on Dixie cotton chopper, Delhi, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Cotton chopper mounted on automobile trailer, Delhi, Louisiana. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

He was a skilful chopper, and indulged in some flourishes and ornaments in his art.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Expressions using "chopper": audio peak chopper ♦ butcher's chopper ♦ cherry chopper ♦ chopper demodulator ♦ chopper switch ♦ chopper transistor ♦ meat chopper. Additional references.

Beginning with "chopper": chopper-knife.

Albanian

satër (carver, carving knife, machete), hanxhar (carver, carving knife, cleaver, machete, pole-ax, snickersnee, stylet). (various references)

Arabic 

‏مفرمة (chopping), ‏هليكوبتر (helicopter), ‏ساطور. (various references)

Bulgarian 

сатър, сламен покрив (thatch, thatching), хеликоптер (gyroplane, helicopter, hoverplane, rotors-plane, whirlybird, windmill), тикер, къса секира, картечница (chatterbox, coffee grinder, machine gun), прекъсвач (breaker, chopper switch, interrupter, key, switch, trembler). (various references)

Chinese 

砍刀. (various references)

Czech

vrtulník (helicopter), sekyrka (hatchet), sekáèek (cleaver, meat chopper). (various references)

Danish

chopper transistor (chopper transistor), chopper (chopper transistor), slagle (mincer, slat), skovarbejder (barker, peeler, rosser, skidder), kloeveoekse, kørner (mincer, punch, puncher, turning pin), hakkemaskine (hoeing machine, mechanical hoe, mincer), braendeoekse, automatisk udskæringsapparat. (various references)

Dutch

chopper (chopper transistor, vibrating contactor, vibrator), stroomhakker (chopper transistor), onderbreker (jumper), kloofbijl, interruptor, hakselaar (cylinder chopper, cylinder with slicing knives, mincer), hakker (chopper transistor, vibrating contactor), bemonstertransistor (chopper transistor), bandensnijmachine, afknotter. (various references)

Farsi 

هلی کوپتر, تبر, ساطور (Cleaver, Masher, Whittle). (various references)

Finnish

metsuri, kytkintransistori (chopper transistor), hakkuritransistori (chopper transistor), hakkuri (chipper, chopper transistor, cutting bar, edging grinder, hammer hog, hammer mill, hog, hogger, hogging machine, refuse grinder, wood hog). (various references)

French

chopper (chopper transistor), couperet (chopping), couteau (in chain saws), hachoir, bûcheron spécialisé, découpeur, guillotine, écrêteur, hacheur (chopper transistor), vibreur convertisseur, m., merlin, modulateur, relais modulateur, transistor découpeur (chopper transistor), vibreur, hélicoptère. (various references)

German

Zerhacker (chipper, chopper transistor, vibrating contactor, vibrator), Hackmesser (choppers). (various references)

Greek 

ελικόπτερο (helicopter). (various references)

Hebrew 

מקץ, מסוק (helicopter, whirly bird), כלי קצוץ. (various references)

Hungarian

szecskavágó (chaff cutter, chaff-cutter), szakóca, helikopter (gyroplane, helicopter, whirlybird, windmill, windmill-plane), húsvágó bárd (cleaver), húsbárd (meat cleaver). (various references)

Italian

chopper (chopper transistor, vibrating contactor), vibratore (buzzer), trinciatrice (mincer), transistore modulatore a tutto-niente (chopper transistor), transistore chopper (chopper transistor), tranciare (blanking, cut off, outline blanking, outline cutting), relé modulatore (vibrating contactor, vibrator), mannaia (ax, axe, cleaver, knife), interruttore ripetitivo (vibrating contactor), interruttore ciclico (vibrating contactor), accetta a un solo tagliente, accetta (ax, axe, hatchet, it is accepted, you accept). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

チョコレート色 (apparent and grievous error, Chile, chocolate brown, chop, flickering, very sickening, vest, waistcoat). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

チョッパー . (various references)

Korean 

단속기. (various references)

Manx

teigh (axe, hatchet), scolteyder (cleaver, gutter, hewer, nutcracker, splitter), bwoid niaghan (battledore). (various references)

Pig Latin

opperchay.(various references)

Portuguese

cutelo (cradle, cutlass, gore, logger, log-man), cortador de carne (logger, log-man), transistor talhador (chopper transistor), transistor chopper (chopper transistor), talhador (cutter, hewer, logger, log-man), talhadeira (chisel, gad, hardy, splitter), relé modelador (vibrating contactor, vibrator), picador (horse-breaker, pricker), machado (ax, axe), machadinha (ax, axe, cleaver, hatchet, logger, log-man), máquina de picar (mincer), lenhador especializado, interruptor rotativo (vibrating contactor), guilhotina (paper-cutter), f. (beater, creaming, rosin, set, softness, spreading, stickiness, strength). (various references)

Romanian

tocãtor (hacking), satâr (cleaver, meat chopper, pole axe). (various references)

Russian 

колун (ax, axe), вертолет (helicopter, rotor plane, rotors-plane, whirly bird, whirlybird), нож мясника (butcher's knife), лесоруб (axeman, axemen, logger, logman, log-man, lumberer, lumberjack, lumberman, woodcutter, woodman, woodmen, woodsman), билетер (checktaker, usher), прерыватель;вертолет. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

cepač (splitter), seckalica, helikopter (helicopter, whirly bird). (various references)

Spanish

chopper (chopper transistor), circuito parcializador (chopper transistor), contactor vibrador (vibrating contactor), cortador (cutter, guillotine), cortadora (guillotine, slicer), cortante (biting, cutting, piercing, slicing), cuchilla (blade, Colter, coulter, cutter, knife), cuchilla de cocinero, chópper, helicóptero (helicopter, whirly bird), hacha (ax, axe, dab, hack, hatchet, sax, torch), vibrador (buzzer, vibrator), interruptor periódico, limitador (limiter), limitador de amplitud (amplitude filter, amplitude limiter, amplitude-limiting circuit, automatik peak limiter, clipper, clipping circuit, limiter, limiter circuit, peak limiter), modulador de descrestado, picadora (chipper, chipping, mincer), relé modulador (vibrating contactor, vibrator), seccionador (chopper transistor, disconnecting switch, disconnector, isolating switch, isolator), tajadera (chop-block, chop-board, chopper-knife), utensilio para picar, descretador (vibrating contactor). (various references)

Swedish

chopper (chopper transistor). (various references)

Turkish

takma diş (artificial teeth, dental plate, denture, pivot tooth, plate, prosthodontics), satır (chopping knife, cleaver, line, setting-rule), kısa saplı balta, helikopter (aerocab, copter, eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird), balta (ax, axe, bill, broad-ax, cleaver, hatchet), akım kesici alet. (various references)

Turkmen 

зapgy (small hammer). (various references)

Ukrainian

сікачка, сікач (bill, meat chopper, mincer), селектор нейтронів, квітковий контролер, корморізка, колун (ax, axe, cleaver), ніж (before, chive, knife, less than, nor, spade, than, within), лісоруб (axeman, lumberer, lumberjack, lumberman, woodcutter, woodman), білетер (usher), переривник (vibrator). (various references)

Vietnamese 

người chặt (hewer), người bổ (cleaver), người đốn (feller). (various references)

secure, securem, securi, securibus, securim, securis, securium, securum. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "chopper": choppered, choppering, choppers. (additional references)

Words ending with "chopper": woodchopper. (additional references)

Words containing "chopper": woodchoppers. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Chopper" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Chomper, choppery, chuppah, Coopper, Echoplex, ghoper, Schepper. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: copper, hopper.

-2 letters: chore, coper, ephor, epoch, hoper, ocher, ochre, perch, porch.

-3 letters: cero, chop, cope, core, crop, echo, hero, hoer, hope, pech, pepo, perp, pope, pore, prep, prop, repo, repp, rope.

-4 letters: cep, cop, cor, hep, her, hoe, hop, ope, orc, ore, pec, peh, pep, per, poh, pop, pro, rec, rep, rho, roc.

+1 letter: choppers, choppier, copperah, prophecy.

+2 letters: choppered, copperahs, hyperopic, prophetic.

+3 letters: approached, approaches, carpophore, choppering, clodhopper, copperhead, pronephric, prophecies, rockhopper.

+4 letters: carpophores, clodhoppers, copperheads, coppersmith, hippocrases, photocopier, pleomorphic, procephalic, prophetical, rockhoppers, woodchopper.

+5 letters: anchorpeople, approachable, coppersmiths, coprophagies, hypercomplex, hypertrophic, nephropathic, paedomorphic, paleographic, petrographic, pharmacopeia, phosphoresce, photocopiers, photospheric, picturephone, reprographic, sharecropped, sharecropper, spectrograph, tropospheric, woodchoppers.