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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 Anti drone nets offer limited protection Probably a direct adoption from the cage armor of the main battle tanks employed in Ukraine, these nets offer limited protection against slow moving First Person View (FPV) quad copter drones. — Aditya Jadhav, Interesting Engineering, 15 May 2026 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 See All Example Sentences for copter

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Each ship comes with 16 missile launch cells, a Lockheed Martin SPY-7 radar, an anti-submarine warfare (ASW) helicopter, and other cutting-edge missile defense capabilities.

— Christopher McFadden, Interesting Engineering, 24 Oct. 2026
Before midday, rescuers in a state helicopter were trying to reach two people stranded in a motor home after trying to escape floodwaters, said Archuleta County Sheriff Mike Le Roux.

— MEAD GRUVER, Arkansas Online, 24 Oct. 2026

Definition of helicopter

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And as always, sites and zones on Mars for the choppers means satisfying engineering constraints imposed by the project and spacecraft design.

— Leonard David, Space.com, 15 Oct. 2026
The moment that chopper goes down, the audience will be trapped right there in the yard with our heroes.

— Andreas Wiseman, Deadline, 15 Oct. 2026

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