coper

[ koh-per ]

noun

, British.

1. a horse dealer.

coper

/ ˈkəʊpə /

noun

1. a horse-dealer

Word History and Origins

Origin of coper¹

First recorded in 1600–10; cope ⁴ + -er ¹

Word History and Origins

Origin of coper¹

C17 (a dealer, chapman): from dialect cope to buy, barter, from Low German; related to Dutch koopen to buy

Example Sentences

Finally there is what Clasen described as the "dark coper," or "somebody who actively uses horror movies to cope with a world that they perceive to be frightening. For them it's a kind of medicine and many of them actually quite literally use horror movies as a form of medication to treat symptoms of generalized anxiety or even clinical depression."

From Salon

Those accounts were recently created, have almost no history, and have been "duplicating the exact same content", says communications adviser Ed Coper.

From BBC

Coper homered in the eighth for a 4-1 lead as Smit allowed a home run for his third straight outing.

From Seattle Times

"She was a nurturer, she was a coper," said Dr McAleese, who recently spent a day with Mrs Hume.

From BBC

Modernist ceramists such as Bernard Leach and, later, the Austrian-born British potter Lucie Rie and the German-born Hans Coper, who started out as Rie’s assistant, made a case for expressive handmade vessels, a movement that was accelerated in the 1940s by nationwide restrictions, instituted to save resources for the war effort, on decorating mass-produced ceramics.

From New York Times