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chopper definition

chop·per (c̸häp′ər)

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.

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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?

Adjective modifier

  • big: There is also what looks like a butcher with a very big chopper!

Modifies a noun

  • bike: You have one type of police bike missing and that's a chopper style bike.

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.
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chopper quotes

To sit in solemn silence in a dull, dark dock, In a pestilential prison, with a life-long lock, Awaiting the sensation of a short, sharp shock, From a cheap and chippy chopper on a big black block!

-Gilbert, Sir W(illiam) S(chwenck)

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