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coppa

coppa noun: capicola.

Noun

coppa (usually uncountable, plural coppas)

  1. (usually) capicola
    • The silken-textured, nutty-sweet prosciutto is named on menus from A16 in San Francisco to Blackbird in Chicago, from Otto in Manhattan to Central Michel Richard in Washington, D.C. The La Quercia range, sold in Whole Foods, has expanded to include organic and heirloom prosciuttos, as well as...2009 February 1, Christine Muhlke, “Aging Gracefully”, in New York Times

Proper noun capitalized: COPPA

COPPA

  1. (US, abbreviation, acronym) Acronym of Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (“a law passed in the United States of America to require children under 13 years of age obtain parental consent to use social media”).

Forms of coppa

pluralcoppas

Origin of coppa

From Italian coppa (“nape”). Doublet of cup and coupe.

Questions about coppa

What does coppa mean?
Coppa means capicola.
What part of speech is coppa?
Coppa can be a noun or a proper noun.
What is the plural of coppa?
The plural of coppa is coppas.

Words near coppa in the dictionary

  1. copovidone
  2. copovidones
  3. copower
  4. copowers
  5. COPP
  6. coppa
  7. Coppabella
  8. Coppage
  9. Coppages
  10. Coppard
  11. Coppards

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coppa (page history and authors); COPPA (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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