chopper
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See also: Chopper
Pronunciation
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈtʃɒp.ə/
- (General Australian) IPA(key): /ˈtʃɔp.ə/
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈt͡ʃɑ.pɚ/
Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɒpə(ɹ)
Etymology 1
Noun
chopper (plural choppers)
- A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
- A knife for chopping food, especially one with a large oblong blade.
- A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
- (informal) A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker or bikie gangs.
- (electronics) Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
- (archaeology) A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
- (baseball) A high-bouncing batted ball.
- (slang) The penis.
- (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 (FLAC), performed by Rico Nasty, Los Angeles: Kemosabe Records, published 2019:
- My chopper sing like Sia, make a bitch sick diarrhea.
- (Canada, US) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).
- A rapper who raps in a fast-paced rhyming style.
Synonyms
- (slang: penis): See Thesaurus:penis.
Derived terms
Translations
axe/ax — see axe
knife for chopping food
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archaeology: crude tool with an irregular cutting edge
thick mitten
type of motorcycle
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slang: assault rifle, especially a fully-automatic one
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)
- (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
Derived terms
Translations
helicopter (formal translations) — see helicopter
Verb
chopper (third-person singular simple present choppers, present participle choppering, simple past and past participle choppered)
- (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
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Etymology
Pronunciation
Verb
chopper
- (archaic, intransitive) to stumble
- (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), Public, (Can we date this quote?)
Conjugation
| 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 | – | – | – | ||||
| simple | — | choppe /ʃɔp/ |
— | choppons /ʃɔ.pɔ̃/ |
choppez /ʃɔ.pe/ |
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| 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:
(Christopher Kendris [1995], Master the Basics: French, pp. 77, 78, 79, 81). | |||||||
Conjugation of chopper (see also Appendix:French verbs)
Derived terms
Further reading
- “chopper”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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