copter

See also: 'copter

English

Alternative forms

• 'copter

Etymology

Clipping of helicopter; see also -copter § Etymology.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒptə/

• Audio (Southern England)

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• (US) enPR: käpʹtər, IPA^(key): /ˈkɑptɚ/

Noun

copter (plural copters)

1. (informal) A helicopter.
   • 2005, Sin City (the film),

     Shellie shouts something I can't quite make out over the racket of a passing police copter.

Synonyms

• heli

Related terms

• -copter (and derivatives therefrom)
• heli- (and derivatives therefrom)

Translations

informal: helicopter

• Finnish: kopteri (fi)
• French: hélico (fr)

Verb

copter (third-person singular simple present copters, present participle coptering, simple past and past participle coptered)

1. (informal, transitive) To helicopter: to transport by helicopter.
2. (informal, intransitive) To helicopter: to travel by helicopter.
3. (informal, intransitive) To move like a helicopter.
   • 2015 July 24, Tom Sleigh, “‘Boomerang’”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     The sidelong whiplash of his arm sent the boomerang soaring, pushing the sky to the horizon until the blade just hung there, a black slash on the sun so far away it seemed not to move at all before it came whirling back larger and larger: would it hit him, would he die — and you ducked down, terrified, clinging to his thigh, its deathspin slowing as it coptered softly down and he snatched it from the air.

Anagrams

• ceptor