Choppers
[chop-er] /ˈtʃɒp ər/
noun
1.
a person or thing that .
2.
a short ax with a large blade, used for cutting up meat, fish, etc.; butcher’s cleaver.
3.
a prehistoric implement made by striking flakes off one or both sides of a stone, considered the oldest known worked stone tool.
4.
choppers, Slang. the teeth.
5.
Informal. a helicopter.
6.
Slang. a motorcycle.
7.
a device for interrupting an electric current or a beam of light at regular intervals.
verb (used without object)
8.
Informal.
/ˈtʃɒpə/
noun
1.
(mainly Brit) a small hand axe
2.
a butcher’s cleaver
3.
a person or thing that cuts or chops
4.
an informal name for a helicopter
5.
(mainly Brit) a slang name for penis
6.
a device for periodically interrupting an electric current or beam of radiation to produce a pulsed current or beam See also vibrator (sense 2)
7.
a type of bicycle or motorcycle with very high handlebars and an elongated saddle
8.
(NZ) a child’s bicycle
9.
(obsolete, slang, mainly US) a sub-machine-gun
n.
1550s, “one who chops,” agent noun from chop (v.1). Meaning “meat cleaver” is by 1818. Meaning “helicopter” is from 1951, Korean War military slang (cf. egg-beater); as a type of stripped-down motorcycle (originally prefered by Hell’s Angels) from 1965.
chopper
(chŏp’ər)
A crudely flaked, unifacial core tool, especially one associated with the Oldowan stone culture of the early Paleolithic Period.
noun
Teeth, esp false teeth (1930s+)
noun
Related Terms
pork-chopper
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