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
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The Royal Navy’s Wildcat helicopters have been equipped with the Lightweight Multirole Missile, also known as Martlet, and deployed to RAF Akrotiri in Cyprus to defend against drone threats.—
Sujita Sinha,
Interesting Engineering,
9 Apr. 2026 -
Within two hours of the astronauts’ splashdown, divers will help extract them from the capsule and get them into helicopters that will carry them to the ship.—
Claire Cameron,
Scientific American,
9 Apr. 2026
Noun
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Below in the courtyard where the big choppers had been loading, the headlights from the cars and trucks surrounding the parking lot were still on to light the way for the choppers.—
Louis Menand,
New Yorker,
13 Apr. 2026
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Slow choppers and things like that.—
LaMond Pope,
Chicago Tribune,
30 Mar. 2026
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“Helos.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/helos. Accessed 17 Apr. 2026.
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