choppers

WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2026

chop•per /ˈtʃɑpɚ/   n. [countable]

1. a person or thing that chops.
2. a short ax with a large blade, used for cutting up meat.
3. Informal Terms a helicopter:
   Choppers with wounded were landing.
4. Slang Terms a motorcycle.

v. [no object]

5. Informal Terms to travel by helicopter or motorcycle:
   They choppered over to the landing zone.

WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2026

chop•per  (chop′ər), 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. Anthropology, Archaeology a prehistoric implement made by striking flakes off one or both sides of a stone, considered the oldest known worked stone tool.
4. Slang Terms choppers, the teeth.
5. Informal Terms a helicopter.
6. Slang Terms a motorcycle.
7. a device for interrupting an electric current or a beam of light at regular intervals.

v.i. 

8. Informal Terms
   • to travel by helicopter:
     We choppered into midtown from the airport.
   • to travel by motorcycle.

• 1545–55; 1950–55 for def. 5; chop¹ + -er¹