helicopterful

helicopterful noun: enough to fill a helicopter.

Noun

helicopterful (plural not attested)

(no plural) Enough to fill a helicopter.
- While Sikorsky evidently didn’t discuss the matter, the shipment of farm crops probably will continue to be by truck or train, altho a helicopterful of cabbage flown to market today would pay off a fair-sized mortgage.1943 May 5, “Taxpayer Socked Again”, in Asbury Park Evening Press, fifty-seventh year, number 106, Asbury Park, N.J., page 8
- Bugs has picked up a helicopterful of musical souvenirs on his harmonious hop around the globe.1958, “Bugs’s Musical Globe-Hopper”, in Bugs Bunny’s Vacation Funnies, number 8, New York, N.Y.: Dell Publishing Co., Inc.

A wounded professional soldier blows up both himself and a helicopterful of generals.1986, New Society:
While smoothing on aromatherapeutic oils, she revealed that a guest had once flashed a helicopterful of arrivals.2000, Travel + Leisure, page 65:
But then, I asked them nicely to be careful when I was so rudely interrupted by six Highway Patrol cars and a fucking helicopterful of SWAT guys.2018, Peter Bowen, Solus, New York, N.Y.: Open Road Integrated Media, →ISBN:

From helicopter + -ful.

What does helicopterful mean?: Helicopterful means enough to fill a helicopter.
How do you use helicopterful in a sentence?: A wounded professional soldier blows up both himself and a helicopterful of generals.
What part of speech is helicopterful?: Helicopterful is a noun.

Adapted from Wiktionary: helicopterful (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.

Last updated: 2026-09-02

Cite this entry: “helicopterful.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/helicopterful. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.