helos

plural of helo
as in helicopters
a vehicle for traveling through the air that obtains its lift from rotors which spin horizontally the rescue helo swept in and landed on the roof of the skyscraper

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Noun
  • News helicopters caught agents coming and going from those homes and searching vehicles outside.
    Ryan Oehrli, Charlotte Observer, 17 Oct. 2025
  • With runways damaged in at least one village, some evacuations had to rely on helicopters.
    NPR, NPR, 17 Oct. 2025
Noun
  • While Black Ops 6 toyed with a more grounded, back-to-the-basics approach of UAVs, airstrikes, and attack choppers as scorestreak rewards for tallying enough points or kills, the speculative fiction framework of BLOPS 7 means everything requires a heightened tone.
    Christopher Cruz, Rolling Stone, 7 Oct. 2025
  • Levine Cava bristled, saying the only money left to fund the choppers would be the county’s emergency fund — dollars reserved for hurricanes or other calamities.
    Douglas Hanks, Miami Herald, 5 Sep. 2025
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“Helos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helos. Accessed 19 Oct. 2025.

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