as in helicopter
a vehicle for traveling through the air that obtains its lift from rotors which spin horizontally
copters from the local TV stations made the obligatory reports on the bumper-to-bumper traffic at the start of the holiday weekend
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John Donnelly, fire and EMS chief for Washington, D.C., told reporters Thursday morning that 27 bodies had been recovered from the plane and one from the copter.
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
The department was the first county to adapt the military’s Black Hawk helicopter into a firefighting copter known as the Firehawk, which carries a water tank of 1,000 gallons.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
The downed copter will continue on as a weather station, recording telemetry, taking images and storing them on board.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
The Army copter was flying at that altitude at its last reading reported to flight tracking services.
—Casey Tolan, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
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Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 30 Jan. 2025
The department was the first county to adapt the military’s Black Hawk helicopter into a firefighting copter known as the Firehawk, which carries a water tank of 1,000 gallons.
—Thomas Fuller, New York Times, 17 Jan. 2025
The downed copter will continue on as a weather station, recording telemetry, taking images and storing them on board.
—Josh Dinner, Space.com, 24 Dec. 2024
The Army copter was flying at that altitude at its last reading reported to flight tracking services.
—Casey Tolan, CNN, 30 Jan. 2025
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“Copter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copter. Accessed 26 Mar. 2025.
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