Thesaurus results for CHOPPER

chopper

noun

ˈchä-pər

as in helicopter

a vehicle for traveling through the air that obtains its lift from rotors which spin horizontally army choppers evacuated refugees from the war zone

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Recent Examples of chopper On the first pitch of the game, Ohtani hit a high chopper to Johnston behind first base. —

Patrick Saunders, Denver Post, 19 Apr. 2026 Below in the courtyard where the big choppers had been loading, the headlights from the cars and trucks surrounding the parking lot were still on to light the way for the choppers. —

Louis Menand, New Yorker, 13 Apr. 2026 But even painstaking security measures didn’t stop choppers from flying over the wedding site. —

Savannah Walsh, Vanity Fair, 13 Apr. 2026 Sandoval opened his outing by drawing a leadoff groundout before committing an error on an infield chopper that allowed the baserunner to reach second. —

Mac Cerullo, Boston Herald, 8 Apr. 2026 See All Example Sentences for chopper

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helicopter

Noun

Outside the hotel, members of the National Guard and other authorities flooded the area as helicopters circled overhead.

— Collin Binkley, Chicago Tribune, 26 Apr. 2026
One of the men was taken to Memorial Regional Hospital by helicopter, while the second was taken in an ambulance.

— Angie DiMichele, Sun Sentinel, 25 Apr. 2026