'coptern.
Chiefly U.S.
= helicopter n. Also attributive.
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society > travel > air or space travel > a means of conveyance through the air > rotary wing aircraft > [noun] > helicopter or gyrocopter
helicopter1861
automotive1865
gyroplane1907
gyropter1908
gyrocopter1915
egg-beater1937
mixmaster1946
'copter1947
chopper1951
whirlybird1951
1947 Sun (Baltimore) 28 June 9/2 The 'copter stepped out of the test tunnel into a wartime job.
1949 Jrnl. Royal Aeronaut. Soc. 53 311/1 Even the provision of ‘City Copter Courts’, as they had been called, would not ensure the full economic utilisation of the helicopter transport potential, unless the public were educated to be helicopter-minded.
1953 F. Pohl & C. M. Kornbluth Space Merchants (1955) ii. 23 ‘Damn-fool bus drivers,’ Jack grunted, staring up at the 'copter.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1972; most recently modified version published online September 2018).
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