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chopper Definition

chop·per (c̸häpər)

noun

  1. a person who chops
  2. a tool or machine for chopping, as an ax or cleaver
  3. Slang a set of teeth, esp. false teeth
  4. Informal a helicopter
  5. Informal a motorcycle
  6. Electronics a device for interrupting a current, light beam, etc. at regular intervals to make amplification easier, create a pulsating effect, etc.

chopper Usage Examples

Converse of object

  • fly: And flying an RC chopper in your front room is even sillier than riding a bicycle around the bathroom, isn't it?
  • come: In came the chopper so close that we could quite easily have hit it with a thrown snowball.
  • get: Soon after I got the Chopper I decided that " racing bikes " were the think for me.
  • have: I did have a chopper i loved also we used to ride around in circles for hours outside my house!
  • build: A NOS Very early MK2 Transitional Red chopper Built in March 1972!
  • see: I arrived at the Post Exchange to see the most beautiful yellow Chopper.

Adjective modifier

  • big: There is also what looks like a butcher with a very big chopper!
  • old: I would like to know what people think of this oldest Chopper in the world malarkey?
  • new: Jim did sent you a recent photo of me new pink chopper.
  • mini: Mini Choppers Buy quality pocket bikes and more for the cheapest prices online.
  • merry: Nick's walk Franco's walk Dinner was a curry cooked by Fabian and Steve and their band of merry choppers.
  • military: Oh, here we go; footage of Blair being lifted out of Gleneagles by a military chopper.

Modifies a noun

  • bike: You have one type of police bike missing and that's a chopper style bike.
  • pilot: Ah well terrorist or drunken chopper pilot, he was here now.
  • circuit: Here, for motor speed control, a step-down chopper circuit with a power MOSFET is used.
  • blade: On some early distributors it may be necessary to shorten the height of the capstan pin to enable the chopper blades to clear.
  • spectrometer: We have also recently carried out some studies using the MARI chopper spectrometer at ISIS.
  • rotation: CR: Chopper rotations elapsed since the requested start time.

Noun used with modifier

  • beam: Time of flight experiments can also be carried out by using a pulsed helium beam created using a beam chopper.
  • bowl: He was found lying with head injuries by the bowl chopper with the ladder on top of him.