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: one that chops
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: a device that interrupts an electric current or a beam of radiation (such as light) at short regular intervals
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: a high-bouncing batted baseball
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: a customized motorcycle
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: one that has the front wheel forward of the handlebars
Examples of chopper in a Sentence
Noun
The sound of choppers filled the sky.
army choppers evacuated refugees from the war zone
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Glenn Garner, Deadline, 5 June 2025
Abrams, meanwhile, puts any questions of his big-screen bona fides to rest, throwing in choppers, explosions, gunplay, void leaps, and a Cruise fast-run that’s exhilaratingly interrupted.
—Jason Bailey, Vulture, 24 May 2025
Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 2 June 2025
Homendy urged witnesses to send video and photos of the crash and asked for patience as investigators identify what led to chopper to tumble out of the sky.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
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Noun
Filming the sequence in Drakensberg, South Africa, Cruise and the stunt team prepared for weeks before ascending more than 75,000 feet in the chopper, from which the actor jumped with the flaming parachute before cutting himself free and deploying a backup parachute.
—Glenn Garner, Deadline, 5 June 2025
Abrams, meanwhile, puts any questions of his big-screen bona fides to rest, throwing in choppers, explosions, gunplay, void leaps, and a Cruise fast-run that’s exhilaratingly interrupted.
—Jason Bailey, Vulture, 24 May 2025
Verb
Soon after, the medics put her in a hyperbaric stretcher and chopper her to safety.
—Christopher Rudolph, People.com, 2 June 2025
Homendy urged witnesses to send video and photos of the crash and asked for patience as investigators identify what led to chopper to tumble out of the sky.
—Jeanine Santucci, USA Today, 11 Apr. 2025
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“Chopper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/chopper. Accessed 20 Jun. 2025.
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