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Chopper may refer to:
- Helicopter
- AK-47 as used in street slang/rap lyrics. Prolific in New Orleans rap, where the city is known as "Chopper City"
- Attacking Chopper, the table tennis style
- Thompson submachine gun
- The part of a mechanical siren that rapidly cuts the flow of air to make a sound, closely fitted to the stator assembly
- A slang term for the penis.
Music [link]
- Chopper (rap), a fast-paced style of rap that originated in the Midwest
Entertainment [link]
- Chopper (film), a 2000 Australian semi-autobiographical film by and about Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read
- Chopper I, a 1988 video game developed by SNK Playmore
- The Chopper, a vehicle from the video game series Halo
Characters [link]
- Chopper (Judge Dredd character)
- Chopper, one of the bosses in the survival horror video game, Clock Tower 3
- Tony Tony Chopper, a character from the anime One Piece
People [link]
- Chopper Read (born 1954), an Australian criminal, author and recording artist
- The nickname of Ron Harris (footballer), a Chelsea footballer
Technology [link]
- Comet Hopper, a mission proposed to NASA and known as CHopper
- Chopper (archaeology), a type of crude stone tool
- Chopper (electronics), a switching device
- Chopper (propeller), a design for boat propellers
- Meatchopper coupling, a railway train coupling
- Optical chopper, a revolving disk with cut-outs to modulate light
Transportation [link]
- "Chopper", an informal term for a Helicopter
- Chopper bicycle
- Chopper (motorcycle), a type of customized motorcycle
- Raleigh Chopper, a bicycle model
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Chopper (film)
Chopper is a 2000 Australian crime film written and directed by Andrew Dominik and based on the autobiographical books by Mark "Chopper" Read. The film stars Eric Bana as the title character and co-stars Vince Colosimo, Simon Lyndon, Kate Beahan and David Field. It has a cult following.
Plot
In and out of jail since he was 16, Melbourne standover man Mark Brandon "Chopper" Read (Eric Bana) is serving a 16-year sentence for kidnapping a supreme court judge to get his childhood friend, Jimmy Loughnan (Simon Lyndon), out of the notorious H Division of maximum security Pentridge Prison. To become leader of the division, he ignites a power struggle which gains him more enemies than admirers. Eventually, even his gang turn their backs on him and Loughnan stabs him several times in a failed assassination attempt. Chopper voluntarily has his ears cut off by a fellow inmate in order to be transferred out of the H Division; this also gains him recognition in and out of the prison.
He is released in 1986, revisiting enemies and friends whom he cannot differentiate anymore. He reunites with his former girlfriend Tanya (Kate Beahan), but suspects that she is involved with one of his old victims, Neville Bartos (Vince Colosimo). He tracks Bartos down, shoots him and takes him to the hospital, unabashedly claiming that he has a "green light" courtesy of the Police "to exterminate scum". When Chopper learns that he is now the target of a death-contract, he goes after his old friend Jimmy, only to find him worn out and poverty stricken by drugs with a daughter and a junkie fiancée who is pregnant with another child.
Chopper (motorcycle)
A chopper is a type of custom motorcycle which emerged in the United States in the mid-1960s. The chopper is perhaps the most extreme of all custom styles, often using radically modified steering angles and lengthened forks for a stretched-out appearance. They can be built from an original motorcycle which is modified ("chopped") or built from scratch. Some of the characteristic features of choppers are long front ends with extended forks often coupled with an increased rake angle, hardtail frames (frames without rear suspension), very tall "ape hanger" or very short "drag" handlebars, lengthened or stretched frames, and larger than stock front wheels. The "sissy bar", a set of tubes that connect the rear fender with the frame, and which are often extended several feet high, is a signature feature on many choppers.
Perhaps the best known choppers are the two customized Harley-Davidsons, the "Captain America" and "Billy Bike", seen in the 1969 film Easy Rider.
