Chopper may refer to:
Transportation
* A colloquialism for
helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which Lift (force), lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning Helicopter rotor, rotors. This allows the helicopter to VTOL, take off and land vertically, to hover (helicopter), hover, and ...
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Chopper (motorcycle)
A chopper is a type of custom motorcycle which emerged in the US state of California in the late 1950s. A chopper employs modified steering angles and lengthened forks for a stretched-out appearance. They can be built from an original motorcyc ...
, a type of customized motorcycle
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Chopper bicycle
A chopper bicycle is a highly customized bicycle whose design, construction and style is similar to that of a chopper-style motorcycle.
About
While the term "chopper" is generally used to describe a motorcycle or bicycle that has had some of ...
, a customized bicycle modeled after the motorcycle
* Nickname for the
British Rail Class 20
The British Rail Class 20, otherwise known as an English Electric Type 1, is a class of Diesel-electric transmission, diesel-electric locomotive. In total, 228 locomotives in the class were built by English Electric between 1957 and 1968, the ...
diesel-electric locomotive
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Norwegian coupling
A Norwegian coupling or coupler (also known colloquially as a chopper coupling or claw hammer coupling), is a manually operated coupling at each end of some narrow-gauge railway rolling stock. It consists of a central buffer incorporating a hoo ...
or chopper coupler, a manually operated coupling at each end of some narrow-gauge railway rolling stock
Arts and entertainment
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''Chopper'' (comics), a horror comic book mini-series
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''Chopper'' (film), a 2000 Australian film by and about Mark "Chopper" Read
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Chopper (''Judge Dredd''), a character in British comics anthologies ''2000 AD'' and ''Judge Dredd''
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''Chopper'' (video game), a 2009 iOS video game
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Chopper I
''Chopper I'' is a vertically scrolling shooter arcade video game developed by SNK and published in 1988. In Japan it was released as
The objective of the top-down game is to infiltrate enemy territory and essentially destroy all objects. The ...
'', a 1988 video game developed by SNK Playmore
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Tony Tony Chopper
, otherwise known as "Cotton Candy Lover", is a fictional character in the manga series ''One Piece'' created by Eiichiro Oda. The character made his first appearance in the 134th chapter of the series, which was first published in Japan in Shue ...
, a character from the manga and anime ''One Piece''
People
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Christopher Hope (journalist)
Christopher Hope (born 24 October 1971) is a British journalist. He is Head of Politics and Political Editor at GB News. Nicknamed Chopper, he presented ''The Daily Telegraph''s weekly interview podcast ''Chopper's Politics''. He previously wor ...
(born 1971), British journalist
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Mark "Chopper" Read
Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (17 November 1954 – 9 October 2013) was an Australian convicted criminal, gang member and author. Read wrote a series of semi-autobiographical fictional crime novels and children's books. The 2000 film '' Chop ...
(1954–2013), Australian criminal, author and recording artist
Other
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Chopper (archaeology)
Archaeologists define a chopper as a pebble tool with an irregular cutting edge formed through the removal of lithic flake, flakes from one side of a stone.
Choppers are crude forms of stone tool and are found in archaeological industry, indust ...
, a stone tool
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Chopper (electronics)
In electronics, a chopper circuit is any of numerous types of electronic switching devices and circuits used in power control and signal applications. A chopper is a device that converts fixed DC input to a variable DC output voltage directly. E ...
, a switching device
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Chopper (ghost)
Chopper was an alleged ghost living in a dentist's office in the city of Neutraubling near Regensburg in Germany. The story was later discovered by the criminal police to be a fraud.
History
In the summer of 1981, Chopper started appearing in ph ...
, an alleged ghost in Germany
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Chopper (propeller)
A chopper is a propeller
A propeller (often called a screw if on a ship or an airscrew if on an aircraft) is a device with a rotating hub and radiating blades that are set at a pitch to form a helical spiral which, when rotated, exerts linea ...
, a propeller design
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Chopper (rap)
Chopper is a hip hop music subgenre that originated in the Midwestern United States and features fast-paced rhyming or rapping. Those that rap in the style are known as choppers, and rapping in the style is sometimes referred to as chopping. The ...
, a vocal delivery style
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Chopper (''Star Wars'' character), a droid from the ''Star Wars Rebels'' animated series
* Nick Chopper, the
Tin Woodman
Nick Chopper, the Tin Woodman, or the Tin Man, is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. He first appeared in his 1900 book '' The Wonderful Wizard of Oz'' and reappeared in many other subsequent Oz ...
in L. Frank Baum's Oz series
See also
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