Definition

1. Noun:
   • A butcher's knife with a large, heavy, rectangular blade: A tool designed for chopping through meat and bone.
   • A helicopter: An aircraft that gains lift from rotating blades (rotors) overhead, rather than fixed wings. This is a common informal term.
   • Informal term for a human tooth: A slang word for a single tooth.
   • A ground ball in baseball that bounces very high: A batted ball that hits the ground and bounces upward sharply.

Usage Examples

• Noun (Butcher's Knife):
  • The butcher used a heavy chopper to cut through the ribs.
• Noun (Helicopter):
  • We heard the chopper approaching before we saw it land on the roof.
• Noun (Tooth - Informal):
  • He smiled, revealing a shiny gold chopper in the front.
• Noun (Baseball):
  • The batter hit a high chopper to the shortstop, who had plenty of time to make the throw.

Advanced Usage

• "To ride a chopper": This phrase almost exclusively refers to riding a type of motorcycle, specifically a custom-built motorcycle with extended front forks and high handlebars. It does not refer to riding a helicopter.
  • He loves to ride his chopper along the coastal highway on weekends.

Variants and Related Words

• Chop (verb): To cut something into pieces with quick, heavy blows.
  • Chop the onions finely.
• Chopping (noun/adj): The action of chopping; describing something that chops.
  • He has a chopping board for vegetables.

Synonyms

• For the knife: Cleaver, butcher knife.
• For the aircraft: Helicopter, copter (informal), whirlybird (informal).
• For the tooth: Tooth (standard), fang (for canine teeth, informal).
• For the baseball hit: High bouncer, hop.

Related Phrases

• Pork chopper: An informal, often derogatory term for a police helicopter.
  • The pork chopper circled the neighborhood all night.

Noun

1. a butcher's knife having a large square blade
2. an aircraft without wings that obtains its lift from the rotation of overhead blades
3. informal terms for a human `tooth'
4. a grounder that bounces high in the air