choppered
Traveled by helicopter
Choppered is the past tense of chopper, meaning to transport by helicopter: The injured climber was choppered to the hospital.
The verb treats chopper—informal for helicopter—as an action rather than just a vehicle.
Most common in news reports about emergency evacuations or military operations.
Emergency air transport injured
- ambulanceEmergency medical transport
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- paramedicsEmergency medical technicians
- rescueSave from harm
critical · lifesaving · hospital · triage · stretcher · stabilize · injury · dispatch
medevac
Emergency air transport injured
- ambulanceEmergency medical transport
- traumaLasting psychological wound
- paramedicsEmergency medical technicians
rescue · critical · lifesaving · hospital · triage · stretcher · stabilize · injury · dispatch · crisis
rotorcraft
Aircraft lifted by blades
flight · altitude · propeller · blades · cockpit · turbine · gyrocopter · takeoff · landing · vertical
chinook
Warm downslope Rocky wind
reconnaissance · airborne · squadron · extraction · insertion · tactical · marines · army · infantry · sortie
chopperedstranded
Left without means to leave
grounded · marooned · stuck · immobilized · stationary
- news chopperAircraft broadcasting live coverage
- get to the chopper
- chopper bikeCustom elongated bicycle
- chopper pilotsThose who fly helicopters
- wood chopperOne who fells trees
- chopper blades