copter
English
Etymology
Clipping of helicopter.
Pronunciation
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Noun
copter (plural copters)
- (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.
- 2005, Sin City (the film),
Translations
informal: helicopter
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Verb
copter (third-person singular simple present copters, present participle coptering, simple past and past participle coptered)
- (informal, transitive) To helicopter: to transport by helicopter.
- (informal, intransitive) To helicopter: to travel by helicopter.
- (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.