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chop•per

Pronunciation: (chop'ur), [key]
—n.
1. a person or thing that chops.
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.

—v.i.
Informal.
a. to travel by helicopter: We choppered into midtown from the airport.
b. to travel by motorcycle.

Random House Unabridged Dictionary, Copyright © 1997, by Random House, Inc., on Infoplease.

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