The word 'chopper' is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it to refer to a type of cutting tool or machine, such as a kitchen chopper for chopping vegetables or a wood chopper for cutting down trees. Example: The chef used a sharp chopper to chop the onions for the soup. You can also use it to refer to a type of motorcycle, typically a customized or modified one. Example: He loved to ride his loud chopper along the open road.
In May The Economist reported that Texans were trying to shoot them from helicopters under the state's "pork chopper" law.
In his plunge into the fray, however, Matt Ridley offers an excellent view of the battlefield, and characteristically he prefers to ride in the front tank rather than the UN observer's chopper.
A "pork chopper" law allows Texan hunters to shoot feral pigs from helicopters, and some individuals in Louisiana have even built their own pig-hunting drone.
Even in a nursery-rhyme from the early 19th century, the city bristles with danger: "Here comes a candle to light you to bed/And here comes a chopper to chop off your head".Mark Ford, a poet and the editor of this volume, clearly delights in such juxtapositions.
Bell Helicopter manufactured the Huey chopper here, and the company is still, along with Lockheed, a major employer.
Despite the risk from old-fashioned ground fire, particularly in narrow valleys, a ride in a chopper is still better than land travel on ambush-ridden or non-existent roads.Western military operations in Iraq and Afghanistan would be much riskier, and probably impossible, without the widespread use of helicopters.
That creates uneven lift that tries to roll the chopper over.
The blast broke his bedroom window and strewed blackened bits of the chopper over a nearby wheat field.Mr Khan and others in Abbottabad, a garrison town north of Islamabad, say the raid that killed Osama bin Laden lasted for 40 minutes.
The crowds did not know which helicopter he was in, so they waved and shouted "Bye-bye, George" at any chopper that passed over them.
MORE men at the expense of machines; more drones rather than top-end fighter jets and future bombers; more helicopters for combat troops rather than a replacement for the presidential chopper; more coastal vessels and fewer aircraft-carriers; better cyberdefences, but scaled-back missile defences and laser weapons.
As the head of a national body, Tharunyata Hetak ("aspiring youth"), he is whisked north a chopper is usually on call to dish out cash, books and other aid to victims of the civil war.
