coupla

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkʌplə/

Contraction

coupla

1. (colloquial) Contraction of couple of.

   There's a coupla guys here to see you.

   I've been to New York a coupla times.

   • 1951 July 16, J[erome] D[avid] Salinger, The Catcher in the Rye, Boston, Mass.: Little, Brown and Company, →OCLC, page 54:

     “ […] Did you make her be late signing in?” […] “Coupla minutes,” he said.

   • 2004, Intelligent Systems, translated by Nintendo of America, Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door, Nintendo, GameCube, level/area: Glitzville:

     I gotta say, y'all are a coupla slack-jawed idiots, sniffin' 'round my business

Anagrams

• copula, cupola, pocula

French

Pronunciation

• Homophones: couplas, couplât

Verb

coupla

1. third-person singular past historic of coupler