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 While still in the air, these copters would start up and fly away from the entry capsule, which would crash on the Martian surface as the autonomous aircraft make their own way down. David Szondy august 01, New Atlas, 1 Aug. 2025 Search: Boats, a copter and a postcard Within hours of the escape, investigators scoured the waters around Alcatraz. Cnn.com Wire Service, Mercury News, 12 May 2025 After the tragic April 10 copter crash, some city lawmakers renewed calls for an outright ban on nonessential helicopter flights. Evan Simko-Bednarski, New York Daily News, 24 Apr. 2025 All that was needed was a target for the copters to search for. Steven Walker, IEEE Spectrum, 11 Nov. 2021 See All Example Sentences for copter
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Noun
  • The birds-eye view, captured by news helicopters, looked like the aftermath of an aerial bombardment, all gray.
    Dana Goodyear, New Yorker, 22 Sep. 2025
  • The company described that the plane could carry six CH-47 Chinook helicopters without disassembly, four CV-22 Osprey tiltrotors directly to the fight, or four F-16s or F-35Cs without aerial refueling.
    Kapil Kajal, Interesting Engineering, 22 Sep. 2025
Noun
  • Moments later, the couple disembarked from the chopper, walking hand-in-hand across the South Lawn.
    Martha Ross, Mercury News, 26 Sep. 2025
  • Slap a 66-mph chopper to a safe spot on the infield.
    Zack Meisel, New York Times, 24 Sep. 2025

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“Copter.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/copter. Accessed 29 Sep. 2025.

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