chop·per (ch p  r)n.1. One that chops: a vegetable chopper. 2. Archaeology A crudely flaked core tool, especially one of the early Paleolithic Period. 3. A device that interrupts an electric current or a beam of radiation. 4. Informal A helicopter. 5. choppers Slang Teeth, especially a set of false teeth. 6. Informal A motorcycle, especially one that is customized. intr. & tr.v. chop·pered, chop·per·ing, chop·pers Informal To travel by helicopter or transport (someone or something) by helicopter. |
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| In surgery, having the least experience, and it being a business that spoke directly to the senses, he was most apt to distrust his own powers; but he had applied oils to several burns, cut round the roots of sundry defective teeth, and sewed up the wounds of numberless wood choppers, with considerable éclat, when an unfortunate jobber suffered a fracture of his leg by the tree that he had been felling. Look around you, men; what will the Yankee Choppers say, when they have cut their path from the eastern to the western waters, and find that a hand, which can lay the I had remembered the wall in the fencing-room decorated with trophies of cold steel in all the civilized and savage forms; sheaves of assegais, in the guise of columns and grouped between them stars and suns of choppers, swords, knives; from Italy, from Damascus, from Abyssinia, from the ends of the world. |