copter means A helicopter. Lexicurio rates it Distinctive — a strength score of 66 out of 100.
copter is pronounced /ˈkɒptə/.
Etymology
Clipping of helicopter; see also -copter § Etymology.
noun
- A helicopter.“2005, Sin City (the film),
Shellie shouts something I can't quite make out over the racket of a passing police copter.”
verb
- To helicopter: to transport by helicopter.
- To helicopter: to travel by helicopter.
- To move like a helicopter.“The sidelong whiplash of his arm sent the boomerang soaring, pushing the sky to the horizon until the blade just hung there, a black slash on the sun so far away it seemed not to move at all before it came whirling back larger and larger: would it hit him, would he die — and you ducked down, terrified, clinging to his thigh, its deathspin slowing as it coptered softly down and he snatched it from ”