Chopper may refer to:
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 1998. 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
is a fictional character in the manga series ''One Piece'' by Eiichiro Oda. He is the fifth member to join and the doctor of the Straw Hat Pirates. Chopper is frequently featured on official merchandise, serving as a mascot for the series.
The ...
, a character from the manga and anime ''One Piece''
People
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Christopher Hope (journalist) (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
Transportation
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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 radically modified steering angles and lengthened forks for a stretched-out appearance. They can be built from an origin ...
, 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 i ...
, a customized bicycle modeled after the motorcycle
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Raleigh Chopper
The Raleigh Chopper is a children's bicycle, a wheelie bike, manufactured and marketed in the 1970s by the Raleigh Bicycle Company of Nottingham, England. Its unique design became a cultural icon and is fondly remembered by many who grew up in ...
, a model of bicycles
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colloquialism
Colloquialism (), also called colloquial language, everyday language or general parlance, is the style (sociolinguistics), linguistic style used for casual (informal) communication. It is the most common functional style of speech, the idiom norm ...
for
helicopter
A helicopter is a type of rotorcraft in which lift and thrust are supplied by horizontally spinning rotors. This allows the helicopter to take off and land vertically, to hover, and to fly forward, backward and laterally. These attributes ...
* A 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 locomotive. In total, 228 locomotives in the class were built by English Electric between 1957 and 1968, the large number being in part bec ...
diesel-electric locomotive
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Chopper coupler
A Norwegian coupling (or meat chopper) or claw hammer coupling or pickaxe coupling is a manual coupling consisting of a central buffer with a mechanical hook that drops into a slot in the central buffer. The system is only found on narrow gauge ra ...
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 flakes from one side of a stone.
Choppers are crude forms of stone tool and are found in industries as early as the Lower Palaeolit ...
, 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 (colloquially 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, ...
, a propeller design
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Chopper (rap)
Chopper is a hip hop music subgenre that originated in the Midwestern United States
The Midwestern United States, also referred to as the Midwest or the American Midwest, is one of four census regions of the United States Census Bureau (a ...
, 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, also known as the Tin Man or—mistakenly—the "Tin Woodsman," is a character in the fictional Land of Oz created by American author L. Frank Baum. Baum's Tin Woodman first appeared in his classic 1900 book ''The ...
in L. Frank Baum's Oz series
See also
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