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copa

copa is the clipping of copacetic.

Meaning of copacetic

Adjective

copacetic (comparative more copacetic, superlative most copacetic)

  1. (US, slang) Fine, excellent, OK, in excellent order.
    • ["][…]an' as to looks I'd call him, as ye might say, real copasetic." Mrs. Lukins expressed this opinion solemnly and with a slight cough. Its last word stood for nothing more than an indefinite depth of meaning.[…] There was one other word in her lexicon which was in the nature of a jewel to be...1919, Irving Bacheller, A Man for the Ages: A Story of the Builders of Democracy, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC, pages 69 and 287

Proper noun capitalized: Copa

Copa

  1. (abbreviation) Abbreviation of Copacabana.

Forms of copa

comparativemore copa
superlativemost copa

Questions about copa

What is copa the clipping of?
Copa is the clipping of copacetic.
What part of speech is copa?
Copa is a proper noun.

Words near copa in the dictionary

  1. cop-killers
  2. cop-out
  3. cop-outs
  4. cop-stache
  5. cop-wise
  6. copa
  7. Copacabana
  8. copacetic
  9. copack
  10. copackage
  11. copackaged

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Adapted from Wiktionary: copa (page history and authors); Copa (page history and authors); copacetic (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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