- present tense form of copper (3rd person singular).
coppers
Example Sentences
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By the time we reached book four, Goblet of Fire, we were seeing do-gooding Hermione’s Society for the Promotion of Elfish Welfare formed in response to the bond slavery of these sock-loving poppets.
From The Guardian • Jun. 26, 2017
Some poppets may take this consistency of tone to be indicative of a “lack of creativity” on Gaga’s end.
From Slate • Apr. 1, 2014
Colman finds this family dynamic almost unbearable and starts to well up at the memory of the framed family snap they used on set depicting the teen horrors as little poppets.
From The Guardian • Jul. 7, 2013
Meanwhile, Swift – in her delightfully serious Swiftian way – makes an outright appeal to feminism that summons the sisterhood to the noble cause of never ridiculing country-pop poppets.
From The Guardian • Mar. 9, 2013
As we approached, above us rose her bow, higher than a house, with poppets both there and at the stern, as well as bracing to support her.
From The Treasure-Train by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
