Chopper
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The word "Chopper," when used alone, has several possible meanings in the English language:
- Chopper (motorcycle) - a motorcycle where many parts were removed (chopped) or replaced, esp. a radically customized Harley-Davidson as seen in the movie Easy Rider
- The Raleigh Chopper was a bicycle styled and named after these motorcycles. It was very popular in Britain during the 1970s.
- "Chopper" is a slang term for a Helicopter, and in some British English dialects, for penis.
- A Chopper is another name for an axe, as in the nursery rhyme Oranges and Lemons which contains the line "Here comes a chopper to chop off your head".
- In archaeology a chopper is a type of crude stone tool.
- chopper (fish)
- Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read Australian criminal and author.
- Chopper (movie), a 2000 movie about Mark Brandon Read.
- Chopper (electronics) is a switching device used to convert DC signals to AC, and is usually found in some kinds of measuring equipment, controllers for electric motors, etc.