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copter

noun

ˈkäp-tər

Definition of copter

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 Carroll was eventually flown to a hospital by a medical copter. — Logan Smith, CBS News, 5 Apr. 2026 The copter was operated by Airborne Aviation, which does sightseeing tours of Kauai’s canyons, shoreline and waterfalls. — Jennifer Sinco Kelleher, Los Angeles Times, 28 Mar. 2026 The Easter Bunny will fly in via copter, then hand out eggs to children. — Linda Zavoral, Mercury News, 27 Mar. 2026 These copters, presumably built at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, will carry cameras and ground-penetrating radars to scan the Martian terrain for subsurface water ice. — Stephen Clark, ArsTechnica, 25 Mar. 2026 See All Example Sentences for copter

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Noun

Images showed him being evacuated by helicopter, with an army medic checking on him during the flight.

— Shristi Kafle, Los Angeles Times, 5 Sep. 2026
Eleven water-dropping planes and helicopters assisted 85 firefighters in an effort to contain the blaze, which remained at some distance from the viewing area at Athens Flying Week, an annual air show.

— ABC News, ABC News, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of helicopter

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The Giants won in the bottom of the inning when Shay Whitcomb followed a sacrifice bunt with a chopper to shortstop that was placed well enough to score automatic runner Nate Furman with the winning run.

— Andrew Baggarly, New York Times, 8 Sep. 2026
Following Drew Cavanaugh’s sacrifice bunt, a high chopper to the left side of the infield by Whitcomb allowed rookie Nate Furman, the automatic runner, to score the winning run from third base with ease.

— Justice delos Santos, Mercury News, 8 Sep. 2026

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