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telecopter

telecopter noun: a helicopter used by a television news channel to gather footage.

Noun

telecopter (plural telecopters)

  1. A helicopter used by a television news channel to gather footage.
    • The angle came from a helicopter—KTLA-TV’s “telecopter” was the first of its kind. The utility of the Korean War–vintage Bell 47G-5 with the camera affixed to its belly had so far been mostly prurient: shots of the swimming pool where Marlon Brando’s maid had drowned; of the well that swallowed a...2008, Rick Perlstein, Nixonland, New York […] : Scribner, →ISBN, page 3

Forms of telecopter

pluraltelecopters

Origin of telecopter

Blend of tele- + helicopter.

Questions about telecopter

What does telecopter mean?
Telecopter means a helicopter used by a television news channel to gather footage.
What part of speech is telecopter?
Telecopter is a noun.
What is the plural of telecopter?
The plural of telecopter is telecopters.

Words near telecopter in the dictionary

  1. telecopiers
  2. telecopies
  3. telecoprid
  4. telecoprids
  5. telecops
  6. telecopter
  7. telecopters
  8. telecopy
  9. telecopying
  10. telecording
  11. telecosm

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