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coupers

coupers is the plural of couper.

Meaning of couper

Noun

couper (plural coupers)

  1. (UK, obsolete) A dealer in horses or other livestock.
    • I think the Yorkshire story of the farmer who sold his old horse to a couper at a fair, then got very drunk on his good bargain, and bought him back at the end of the day with painted legs and filed teeth as a young horse, might have a kindred story among Daffodil-bulb buyers.1893, Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society of London, page 95

Questions about coupers

What is coupers the plural of?
Coupers is the plural of couper.

Words near coupers in the dictionary

  1. coupee
  2. coupees
  3. coupelike
  4. couper
  5. Couperinesque
  6. coupers
  7. coupes
  8. coupette
  9. coupettes
  10. Coupeville
  11. Coupiansk

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