copter
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3.9
- noun
- /ˈkɒptər/
- Informal
:
helico
- Rayford whirled and watched the copter eclipse the descending sun.
Like how how about a a drone copter that detaches from yours, attaches to the other bot, picks it up and drops it out of the ring?
- Like how how about a a drone copter that detaches from yours, attaches to the other bot, picks it up and drops it out of the ring?
- I, I'll see these pictures of like a copter drone dropping, you know, a hand grenade on a couple of soldiers unsuspectingly in a trench and go off.
- You never heard saw ruffle copter, Eugene?
Examples
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Can you order us a copter?
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When I looked up, the copter was just a speck receding toward the horizon.
Fiction book (1995) -
Additionally, our Channel Four News copter has been in the air all morning.
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I can spot from a 'copter.
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You know how to get to the copter pad.
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We have a traffic copter now here at WWWW.
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Chief, we've got the copter ready.
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Flying upriver on Johnson's copter through a canyon twenty-five feet above the river.
Fiction book (1993) -
Batman watches as a copter descends toward the helipad on the roof of the Globe ...
Fiction book (1992) -
The news team flew in a copter to cover the breaking story from the air.
Synonyms
759
2.5
A flying machine with turning blades that can hover and take off straight up
204
3.9
A machine with large top blades that flies and carries people
27
8.1
A helicopter that carries people or supplies, often used by the military
3
8.5
A short word for a helicopter, a flying machine with spinning blades
1
7.5
A flying machine lifted and moved by spinning blades like a helicopter
A flying machine that uses spinning blades above it to lift and move
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word copter is a short form of helicopter, and that full word comes from the Greek parts helix and pteron, which mean 'spiral' and 'wing', so you can think of it as a 'spinning wing'. That's why a copter is an aircraft that flies with rotating blades.