chopper

chopper

See also: Chopper

English

Pronunciation

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

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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, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
10. (Canada, US) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Synonyms

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

Derived terms

• 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) 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 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, C.W. McCall and Chip Davis (lyrics), “Convoy”, in 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) 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.

Translations

(informal) To travel or transport by helicopter

Spanish: helicar

Anagrams

• prechop

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French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ʃɔ.pe/

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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 title of the work)‎, Public, (please provide a date or year)

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.