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chopper
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun chopper has 4 senses
- chopper(n = noun.act) chop - a grounder that bounces high in the air; Array is a kind of ground ball, groundball, grounder, hopper
- chopper(n = noun.body) pearly - informal terms for a human `tooth'; Array is a kind of tooth
- chopper(n = noun.artifact) eggbeater, helicopter, whirlybird - an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades; Array has parts: blade, vane, landing skid, rotor
- chopper(n = noun.artifact) cleaver, meat cleaver - a butcher's knife having a large square blade; Array is a kind of knife
Derived form verb chop4
Derived forms verb chop5, verb chop1
has particulars: cargo helicopter, shuttle helicopter, single-rotor helicopter, skyhook
is a kind of heavier-than-air craft
Derived forms verb chop5, verb chop1
OXFORD DICTIONARY
chopper, n.
1 a Brit. a short axe with a large blade. b a butcher's cleaver.
2 colloq. a helicopter.
3 a device for regularly interrupting an electric current or light-beam.
4 colloq. a type of bicycle or motor cycle with high handlebars.
5 (in pl.) Brit. sl. teeth.
6 US sl. a machine-gun.
1 a Brit. a short axe with a large blade. b a butcher's cleaver.
2 colloq. a helicopter.
3 a device for regularly interrupting an electric current or light-beam.
4 colloq. a type of bicycle or motor cycle with high handlebars.
5 (in pl.) Brit. sl. teeth.
6 US sl. a machine-gun.
THESAURUS
chopper
bicycle, bike, copter, cycle, eggbeater, helicopter, iron, minibike, motocycle, motorbike, motorcycle, pedicab, pig, road-bike, rotary-wing aircraft, rotor plane, trail bike, tricycle, trike, wheel, whirlybird, windmill
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