Chopper vs Cropper - What's the difference?
chopper | cropper |
A tool for ping wood; an axe/ax.
A knife for chopping food.
(informal) A helicopter.
(slang) The penis.
(informal) A type of road motorcycle, especially as used by biker / bikie gangs.
(slang) An or similar assault rifle.
(electronics) Any of various electronic switches used to interrupt one signal under the control of another.
a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper
* 1900 , Sigmund Freud, The Interpretation of Dreams'', ''Avon Books , (translated by James Strachey) pg. 185:
a person who nurtures and gathers a crop
a variety of plant producing a good harvest
A machine for cropping, as for shearing off bolts or rod iron, or for facing cloth.
As nouns the difference between chopper and cropper
is that chopper is a tool for chopping wood; an axe/ax while cropper is a fall, a tumble; see come a cropper.As a verb chopper
is to travel or transport by helicopter.As a proper noun Cropper is
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English
Noun
(en noun)Synonyms
* (helicopter) whirlybird * cock, dick, knob, prickcropper
English
Etymology 1
Noun
(en noun)- 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.’
Etymology 2
a bird's cropEtymology 3
an agricultural cropNoun
(en noun)- That potato I grew last year was a good cropper .