different between chopper vs cropper

English

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t??p.?/
• (General Australian) IPA^(key): /?t??p.?/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t??.p?/
• Rhymes: -?p?(?)

Etymology 1

chop +? -er

Noun

chopper (plural choppers)

1. A tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax.
2. A knife for chopping food.
3. (archaeology) A crude tool with an irregular cutting edge formed by removing flakes from one side of a stone.
4. A thick mitten, usually with yellow leather on the outside.
5. (slang) The penis.
6. (informal) A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker/bikie gangs.
7. (slang) An assault rifle, especially a fully-automatic one (e.g. an AK-47).
8. (electronics) Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
9. (Canada, US) The bluefish (Pomatomus saltatrix).

Synonyms

• (slang: penis): See Thesaurus:penis.

Translations

Etymology 2

From the onomatopoeia for the "chop-chop" sound emitted by the main rotor blades of the Bell 47 'OH-13 Sioux' "Angel of Mercy" helicopter, encountered by troops during the Korean War

Noun

chopper (plural choppers)

1. (informal) A helicopter.

Synonyms

• (helicopter): whirlybird

Translations

Verb

chopper (third-person singular simple present choppers, present participle choppering, simple past and past participle choppered)

1. (informal) To travel or transport by helicopter.

Translations

Anagrams

• prechop

French

Etymology

Onomatopoeic

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.pe/

Verb

chopper

1. (archaic, intransitive) to stumble

Conjugation

Derived terms

• choper

Further reading

• “chopper” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

English

Etymology 1

Noun

cropper (plural croppers)

1. (normally confined to the expression come a cropper) A fall, a tumble; a decided failure.
   • 1900, Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams, Avon Books, (translated by James Strachey) page: 185:

     But to myself I thought: ‘Considering that for eight whole years I sat on the front bench as top of the class while he drifted about somewhere in the middle, he can hardly fail to nourish a wish, left over from his schooldays, that some day or other I may come a complete cropper.’

   • 1991, Stephen Fry, The Liar, p. 29:

     You're riding for a fall, Healey, you know that? There are hedges and ditches ahead and you are on course for an almighty cropper.

Etymology 2

crop +? -er, in reference to a bird's crop.

Noun

cropper (plural croppers)

1. A breed of domestic pigeon with large crop.

Etymology 3

crop +? -er, in reference to agricultural crops.

Noun

cropper (plural croppers)

1. A person who nurtures and gathers a crop.
2. A variety of plant producing a good harvest.

Etymology 4

crop +? -er, from the verb.

Noun

cropper (plural croppers)

1. A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.