choppers
直升机
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Definitions
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- : a person or thing that chops.
- : a short ax with a large blade, used for cutting up meat, fish, etc.; butcher's cleaver.
- : a prehistoric implement made by striking flakes off one or both sides of a stone, considered the oldest known worked stone tool.
- : choppers, Slang. the teeth.
- : Informal. a helicopter.
- : Slang. a motorcycle.
- : a device for interrupting an electric current or a beam of light at regular intervals.
- 1
- : Informal. to travel by helicopter: We choppered into midtown from the airport.to travel by motorcycle.
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Examples
You can hear the choppers descending even if you have never set foot in the country.
By midday, the Ukrainian government had confirmed that two of its choppers had been downed.
“They have choppers looking for them,” Sheriff Herrera says.
The choppers, which had been sold to Syria by Russia in the early 1990s, had been undergoing a refit in Russia.
A Russian ship was to deliver choppers to Syria—until a U.K. insurer canceled its sea coverage and made it a pariah.
A Forest officer is detailed to an operation of this kind to inspect the choppers' work and count and stamp the ties.
Some wood-choppers went on a hunt for the fugitive, and chased him to what was called "Bird Slough."
He had a very great mind to eat her up; but he dared not, for there were some wood-choppers near by.
His fine pair of wood-choppers had grown short and very yellow—that is why he is called Hezee—Yellow Teeth.
The two choppers sprang wildly for shore, as the whole face of the jam seemed to crumble in a breath.