Chopper

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Chopper may refer to:

Transportation

• Helicopter
• Chopper (motorcycle), a type of customized motorcycle
• Raleigh Chopper, a model of bicycles
• Chopper bicycle, a customised bicycle stylistically modelled after the motorcycle
• A nickname for the British Rail Class 20 locomotive

Technology

• Chopper, a nickname for a Thompson submachine gun
• Comet Hopper, a mission proposed to NASA and known as CHopper
• Chopper (archaeology), a type of crude stone tool
• Chopper (electronics), a switching device
• Chopper (propeller), a design for boat propellers
• Cleaver, a large meat knife
• Meatchopper coupling, a railway train coupling
• Optical chopper, a revolving disk with cut-outs to modulate light
• The part of a mechanical siren (noisemaker) that rapidly cuts the flow of air to make a sound, closely fitted to the stator assembly

Entertainment/Film

• Chopper (film), a 2000 Australian semi-autobiographical film by and about Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read
• Chopper I, a 1988 video game developed by SNK Playmore
• The Chopper, a vehicle from the video game series Halo
• Attacking Chopper, the table tennis style

Fictional characters

• Chopper (Judge Dredd character)
• Chopper, one of the bosses in the survival horror video game, Clock Tower 3
• Tony Tony Chopper, a character from the manga and anime, One Piece

Music

• Chopper (rap), a fast-paced style of rap that originated in the Midwest

People

• Chopper Read (1954-2013), an Australian criminal, author and recording artist
• The nickname of Ron Harris (footballer), a Chelsea footballer
• Chopper (ghost), an alleged ghost in Germany

Other

• AK-47, a type of rifle sometimes referred to colloquially as a "chopper"