chopper

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Etymology 1

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From chop +‎ -er.

Noun

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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 or 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).
  11. A rapper who raps in a fast-paced rhyming style.
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Etymology 2

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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

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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.
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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.
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French

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Etymology

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Onomatopoeic

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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

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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).

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