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coppers

  • present tense form
    of copper (3rd person singular).
    copper
    noun
    a malleable, ductile, metallic element having a characteristic reddish-brown color: used in large quantities as an electrical conductor and in the manufacture of alloys, as brass and bronze. Cu; 63.54; 29; 8.92 at 20°C.

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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

“This isn’t the local coppers coming down, these are men in dark suits.”

From New York Times ● Mar. 8, 2022

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

The police came up from the capital, The woods were crawling with coppers, But Don Jose was invisible, Even to the noisy choppers.

From "The Milagro Beanfield War" by John Nichols