chopper

See also: Chopper

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɒp.ə/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /ˈtʃɔp.ə/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑ.pɚ/

• Audio (US)

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• Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

chop +‎ -er

Noun

chopper (plural choppers)

1. A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
2. A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.
3. A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
4. (informal) A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker/bikie gangs.
5. (electronics) Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
6. (archaeology) A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
7. (baseball) A high-bouncing batted ball.
8. (slang) The penis.
9. (slang) An assault rifle or carbine, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
   • 2019 March 1, Rico Nasty (lyrics and music), “Tia Tamera”, in Maria-Cecilia Simone Kelly (lyrics), Amala Ratna Zandile Dlamini (music), Amala‎^[1] (FLAC), performed by Rico Nasty, Los Angeles: Kemosabe Records, published 2019:

     My chopper sing like Sia, make a bitch sick diarrhea.

10. (Canada, US) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Synonyms

• (slang: penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

Derived terms

• chopper coupling
• copper chopper
• footchopper, foot chopper
• headchopper
• logic-chopper
• logic chopper
• meat-chopper
• wood chopper

 

Translations

axe/ax — see axe

knife for chopping food

• Bulgarian: сатър (bg) m (satǎr)
• Finnish: paloitteluveitsi
• French: hachoir (fr) m
• German: Hackbeil n
• Greek:

  Ancient: κοπίς f (kopís)

• Macedonian: са́тар m (sátar)
• Ottoman Turkish: ساطور (satır)
• Polish: tasak (pl)
• Slovak: sekáčik m
• Spanish: tajador m
• Tagalog: panghapak

archaeology: crude tool with an irregular cutting edge

• Finnish: kirves (fi)
• French: galet aménagé m
• German: Chopper (de) m
• Korean: 찍개 (jjikgae)

thick mitten

slang: penis

• Finnish: slaba (fi)
• French: zob (fr) m
• German: Schwanz (de)

type of motorcycle

• Finnish: chopperi
• Spanish: chóper f

slang: assault rifle, especially a fully-automatic one

• Finnish: rynkky (fi) (assault rifle); aksu (AK-47)

electronics: type of electronic switch

• Finnish: hakkuri (fi)
• French: hacheur (fr) m

Pomatomus saltatrix — see bluefish

Etymology 2

From the onomatopoeia for the "chop-chop" sound emitted by the main rotor blades of the Bell 47 'OH-13 Sioux' "Angel of Mercy" helicopter, encountered by troops during the Korean War.

Noun

chopper (plural choppers)

1. (informal) A helicopter.
   • 1975, “Convoy”, in C.W. McCall, Chip Davis (lyrics), Black Bear Road, performed by C. W. McCall:

     There's armored cars, and tanks, and Jeeps
     And rigs of every size.
     Yeah, them chicken coops was full o'bears
     And choppers filled the skies.

Synonyms

• (helicopter): whirlybird

Translations

helicopter (formal translations) — see helicopter

informal: helicopter

• Finnish: kopteri (fi)
• French: banane (fr) f, hélico (fr) m
• German: Hubschrauber (de)
• Macedonian: хелико́птер (mk) m (helikópter)
• Portuguese: zingarelho (pt)
• Russian: верту́шка (ru) f (vertúška)
• Spanish: helico m, helicóptero (es) m

Verb

chopper (third-person singular simple present choppers, present participle choppering, simple past and past participle choppered)

1. (informal) To travel or transport by helicopter.
   • 2022, Liam McIlvanney, The Heretic, page 288:

     They lifted Catholics. Civil Rights guys, mostly. Low-level nationalists. Choppered them off to some interrogation centre outside Belfast.

Translations

(informal) To travel or transport by helicopter

• Spanish: helicar

Anagrams

• prechop

French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.pe/

• Audio (Paris)

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Verb

chopper

1. (archaic, intransitive) to stumble
2. (informal) Alternative spelling of choper (“to catch”)
   • “Cecilia Siharaj enceinte : L'ex-candidate de Koh-Lanta pensait avoir "choppé" une maladie très grave”, in (Please provide the book title or journal name)‎^[2], Public, (Can we date this quote?)

Conjugation

Conjugation of chopper (see also Appendix:French verbs)

infinitive	simple	chopper
	compound	avoir + past participle
present participle or gerund1	simple	choppant /ʃɔ.pɑ̃/
	compound	ayant + past participle
past participle		choppé /ʃɔ.pe/
		singular			plural
		first	second	third	first	second	third
indicative		je (j’)	tu	il, elle, on	nous	vous	ils, elles
(simple tenses)	present	choppe /ʃɔp/	choppes /ʃɔp/	choppe /ʃɔp/	choppons /ʃɔ.pɔ̃/	choppez /ʃɔ.pe/	choppent /ʃɔp/
	imperfect	choppais /ʃɔ.pɛ/	choppais /ʃɔ.pɛ/	choppait /ʃɔ.pɛ/	choppions /ʃɔ.pjɔ̃/	choppiez /ʃɔ.pje/	choppaient /ʃɔ.pɛ/
	past historic2	choppai /ʃɔ.pe/	choppas /ʃɔ.pa/	choppa /ʃɔ.pa/	choppâmes /ʃɔ.pam/	choppâtes /ʃɔ.pat/	choppèrent /ʃɔ.pɛʁ/
	future	chopperai /ʃɔ.pʁe/	chopperas /ʃɔ.pʁa/	choppera /ʃɔ.pʁa/	chopperons /ʃɔ.pʁɔ̃/	chopperez /ʃɔ.pʁe/	chopperont /ʃɔ.pʁɔ̃/
	conditional	chopperais /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/	chopperais /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/	chopperait /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/	chopperions /ʃɔ.pə.ʁjɔ̃/	chopperiez /ʃɔ.pə.ʁje/	chopperaient /ʃɔ.pʁɛ/
(compound tenses)	present perfect	present indicative of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect	imperfect indicative of avoir + past participle
	past anterior2	past historic of avoir + past participle
	future perfect	future of avoir + past participle
	conditional perfect	conditional of avoir + past participle
subjunctive		que je (j’)	que tu	qu’il, qu’elle	que nous	que vous	qu’ils, qu’elles
(simple tenses)	present	choppe /ʃɔp/	choppes /ʃɔp/	choppe /ʃɔp/	choppions /ʃɔ.pjɔ̃/	choppiez /ʃɔ.pje/	choppent /ʃɔp/
	imperfect2	choppasse /ʃɔ.pas/	choppasses /ʃɔ.pas/	choppât /ʃɔ.pa/	choppassions /ʃɔ.pa.sjɔ̃/	choppassiez /ʃɔ.pa.sje/	choppassent /ʃɔ.pas/
(compound tenses)	past	present subjunctive of avoir + past participle
	pluperfect2	imperfect subjunctive of avoir + past participle
imperative		–	tu	–	nous	vous	–
simple		—	choppe /ʃɔp/	—	choppons /ʃɔ.pɔ̃/	choppez /ʃɔ.pe/	—
compound		—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	simple imperative of avoir + past participle	—
1 The French gerund is usable only with the preposition en.
2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way: past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81).

Derived terms

• choper

Further reading

• “chopper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.