- present tense form of copper (3rd person singular).
coppers
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Her odyssey also takes her to Falster, an island at the bottom of the country, where she finds “a cluster of sooty coppers on a few glossy yellow flowers.”
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 11, 2026
Mette, who has been with the department for 18 years, told "young coppers" they have a "long way to go."
From Fox News ● Oct. 21, 2021
Could the man seemingly most committed to rooting out bent coppers be the worst of them all?
From BBC ● May 1, 2021
There do exist bent coppers as the saying goes.
From New York Times ● Apr. 13, 2018
He eats, he sleeps in a house he made himself, he has coppers in his sash.
From "The Golden Goblet" by Eloise Jarvis McGraw
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