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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Recent Examples of copter
An optional Reverse Flight Kit even allows the copter to fly upside-down.
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New Atlas, 3 Apr. 2025
The impact ejected Navy Petty Officer Neil Roberts into the snow below and forced the copter down.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2025
This was a ten or twenty thousand dollar copter a few years ago and flying those took a great deal of skill.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2014
One finding even goes so far as to pinpoint and classify idiosyncrasies in piloting skills—so perhaps repeat offenders might one day be spotted by the thumbprint their copter leaves on the sky.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2020
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New Atlas, 3 Apr. 2025
The impact ejected Navy Petty Officer Neil Roberts into the snow below and forced the copter down.
—Matthew Adams, Fort Worth Star-Telegram, 22 Mar. 2025
This was a ten or twenty thousand dollar copter a few years ago and flying those took a great deal of skill.
—IEEE Spectrum, 7 Mar. 2014
One finding even goes so far as to pinpoint and classify idiosyncrasies in piloting skills—so perhaps repeat offenders might one day be spotted by the thumbprint their copter leaves on the sky.
—IEEE Spectrum, 23 July 2020
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for copter
Noun
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The stakes for air safety were made clear in January when an American Airlines regional jet collided with a U.S. Army Black Hawk helicopter over the Potomac River near Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, killing all 67 people aboard.—
Jackie Snow,
Quartz,
19 May 2025
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They'll be followed later by newer aircraft, including 50 Apache, Black Hawk and Chinook helicopters.—
Cybele Mayes-Osterman,
USA Today,
16 May 2025
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During several calls, the audio is interrupted by choppers and drones overhead and bombs falling on neighbors’ houses.—
Siddhant Adlakha,
Variety,
21 May 2025
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His chopper to third base allowed Mason Palermo to race home with the winning run for the host Wolves in a wild 6-5 Southwest Prairie Conference win in eight innings over Yorkville.—
Paul Johnson,
Chicago Tribune,
14 May 2025
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“Copter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copter. Accessed 31 May. 2025.
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